02/07/2025
By Joseph Hartman
As you know, the Healthy Minds Survey was launched last week to gather information about mental health on campus.
Now more than ever, it is important that we understand students’ mental health impacts, help-seeking behaviors, knowledge, and potential barriers to mental health service utilization in order to help them thrive in and out of the classroom. We need your help in sharing information and encouraging our students to participate.
There are several incentives for students to participate. They are automatically entered into a sweepstakes to win gift cards, AirPods Pro, invisaWEAR jewelry or a 32" Smart TV. There are also other pop-up events where students can receive prizes.
What can you do?
• Encourage students to complete the survey! They need to click on the unique link in their email.
• Incentivize students to complete the survey, if possible (e.g. extra credit if they show you the completion page of the survey).
• Please consider reaching out to Melissa Wall if you'd like to post a flyer in your office and/or on your department's social media pages.
• Talk with your colleagues about the importance of the data and ask them to talk with their students as well.
In addition, the Healthy Minds Survey for faculty and staff launched as well.
Please take the survey yourself using the unique link you received via email. The survey provides UMass Lowell with valuable information to help us understand some of the challenges to the mental health of faculty and staff as well as challenges you face in supporting students with mental health concerns.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Melissa Wall at melissa_wall@uml.edu.