Tribal colleges increase mental health services

Image:  Russell Swagger, president of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College in Wisconsin, knew the institution needed a better way to provide mental health services to students and employees when it started to become apparent that the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic were hurting students emotionally. Students and faculty at tribal colleges like his were under a lot of strain. Many had to juggle academic responsibilities while caring for children no longer attending school or...