"HE IS THE SAME MAN, I ASSURE YOU."

This catastrophe descended upon us
less than four months after I finished my year as
President of the Faculty Assembly (2014-2015)

At the time my department suspended me, which it called "administrative  leave," which was late Oct 2015, I had just taken responsibility for two new major projects on campus, which were added to a third major project I had taken on while FA president:
  • In April 2015, while FA president, with the approval of Provost Michael Halleran, I had informally assumed the leading faculty role in the College’s $1 billion Advancement campaign, which meant making sure the VP for Advancement had adequate faculty support;
  • In September 2015, with the approval of VP Student Affairs Ginger Ambler, I launched the first faculty-led student mental health initiative in the United States, thus informally taking on the leading faculty role in student mental health issues on campus, and doing so in a way that would carry out the Board of Visitors’ April 2015 promise to students to “continue the conversation” about these issues;
  • On October 6, 2015, I accepted what is formally the leading faculty role in the College’s strategic planning process, agreeing at the Provost’s request to serve as one of the two subcommittee chairs on the university’s Planning Steering Committee.​ 

RE-ESTABLISHING FACULTY LEADERSHIP ON STUDENT
​MENTAL HEALTH CARE

President of Faculty Assembly 2014-2015
​Four student suicides
Student-Faculty Mental Health Initiative
Introduced Sept 11, 2015
This photo and summary appeared at the bottom
of the Flat Hat's front page on Nov 27, 2018.
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College needs to reexamine student mental
health care
Former government professor David Dessler says the
College  is in desperate need of comprehensive mental
health reform.
Student mental health care at W&M in 2018

Part I: Need for Reform of Current System

http://flathatnews.com/2018/11/27/case-for-reform-college-needs-to-reexamine-mental-health-care/

Part II: An Alternative System in Which the Students Lead

http://flathatnews.com/2018/12/05/case-for-reform-college-needs-to-reexamine-mental-health-care-part-ii/
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