Better Together: A Collaborative Approach to Graduate Student Affairs

As the student affairs profession evolves to better support the needs of graduate students, a re-building of the relationship between academic and student affairs is vital for the success of graduate student support programs. Rates of mental illness are extremely high in the graduate population, and this trend is closely related to elevated attrition rates in recent years. Universities are attempting to support their graduate students through this crisis via separate faculty- and student affairsled initiatives, which have been ineffective in addressing the needs of today’s graduate population. Partnering with faculty members will result in holistic interventions that support students’ needs both inside and outside of the classroom