Most students are hardly adults. They look it, but they are not necessarily yet fully equipped to manage themselves.

And what if the people the same age who didn’t attend college— well, I would push for more and improved social programs to help them. Of course then you could reduce the staff at the colleges.

I’m all for being proactive about rising needs like social and mental health issues, but I also think a reactive response needs to take place in the interim.

The approach of “here’s a helpline phone number, now deal with it” hasn’t proven effective so far so why lean into it?