I'm in community college, and the counsellors...mean well. *g* They're nice, but they barely manage to advise me on my scheduling (more than half of them have trouble understanding me, and I them, and I don't speak Spanish), and I wouldn't trust them beyond that.
Yeah, we're pretty good at gaming the system like that.
I'm in a community college too, here north of Dallas. It's different people who do the counseling and the academic advising. It's weird that it would be the same people. I don't see how they'd be qualified for both (and cheap enough per hr to use for the scheduling thing).
I can understand being reluctant to trust an academic advisor with your mental health though. Yikes.
It's...weird. I don't know exactly how it works, but I do know student health is shamefully underfunded...It may be we simply don't have any counselors and the academic people are doing the best they can.
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Date: 2007-10-10 01:30 am (UTC)Next semester, we're getting our god-daughter enrolled in at least a 1 hr/week PE class so she can get free counseling.
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Date: 2007-10-10 01:35 am (UTC)I'm in community college, and the counsellors...mean well. *g* They're nice, but they barely manage to advise me on my scheduling (more than half of them have trouble understanding me, and I them, and I don't speak Spanish), and I wouldn't trust them beyond that.
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Date: 2007-10-10 01:59 am (UTC)I'm in a community college too, here north of Dallas. It's different people who do the counseling and the academic advising. It's weird that it would be the same people. I don't see how they'd be qualified for both (and cheap enough per hr to use for the scheduling thing).
I can understand being reluctant to trust an academic advisor with your mental health though. Yikes.
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Date: 2007-10-10 02:05 am (UTC)