“Ten faculty and staff members who were nominated this year and in previous rounds of the program, are being honoured as recurring, ‘Superstar’ Champions for Mental Health. Superstar Champion sociology teaching assistant Megan Ingram told the Student Mental Health Collective that they “recognize students as people with expansive lives, of which their academic work is just one part. This approach shifts the entire way that I enter the classroom, seeing it as just one stopping point on their learning journey.” Ingram further says that this approach allows them to “resist the pressure to see academics as the be all end all, and instead to move towards supporting my students in broader ways. In my classes, accommodations, compassion, and understanding are not scarce resources that students must prove themselves to get but are freely given and ultimately crucial to their learning.”
For full story please see: Champions for Mental Health 2023 | Queen's University Gazette (queensu.ca)