The Heights

BC To Establish Murray Center for Student Wellness

Annika Engelbrecht • March 12, 2025

Boston College announced the establishment of the Murray Center for Student Wellness, funded by a gift from Tami Murray, BC ’83, which aims to expand mental health resources for students and enhance staff training.

UCS Reports Increase in Students Seeking Mental Health Services

Shruthi Sriram • October 24, 2021

Craig Burns, director of University Counseling Services (UCS) at Boston College, said there has been a noticeable increase in students seeking help through UCS this academic year.

Boston College Should Evaluate Mental Health Services, Implement Virtual UCS Scheduling, and Hire More Referral Staff

The Heights Editorial Board • October 17, 2021

Boston College should evaluate the efficacy of mental health services provided on campus in order to determine how to best serve the mental health needs of the student population. Some improvements that...

UCS Adjusts to COVID-19, Expands Virtual Resources

Hannah Murphy and Ethan Raye • November 16, 2020

UCS introduced a new module and drop-in support groups as it works to offer students more resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Doug Girardot • September 29, 2020

Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.

UCS to Host ‘Coping With Collective Loss’ Sessions Following Multiple Student Deaths

Abby Hunt • September 2, 2019

The meetings are designed to provide people with a place to talk about their feelings in response to the deaths of multiple BC students that have occurred over the past six months.

University Counseling Services Expands to Newton Campus

Jack Miller • April 9, 2019

Boston College University Counseling Services began offering individual counseling and same-day consultation services at the Newton Campus on March 19

BC, 17 Mass. Schools Join Amicus Brief in MIT Suicide Case

Aidan Latona and Jaehun Lee • November 8, 2017

The brief contends that MIT should not be held responsible because it sets a precedent that university employees, even those without mental health expertise, are responsible for detecting students at risk of taking their own lives.

Connecting Spirituality and Mental Health

Thomas Keenan • September 4, 2017

"Based on what seems to me to be a proper understanding of the spiritual nature of many of the “mental health” problems that affect most students, BC does an admirable job in making resources available for maintaining our emotional well-being."

UGBC Passes Resolution to Implement Text Message Hotline

Heidi Dong • April 2, 2017

Lean On Me is currently operating at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

WellTrack Must Revise Presentation of Survey Results

The Heights Editorial Board • March 16, 2017

"Assessing the mental condition of a participating student is essential to WellTrack’s functionality, but the app should not be viewed as a source of definitive answers, and rather as a useful tool for students to find new ways to deal with issues of stress, depression, and anxiety."

UCS Introduces New Self-Help App

Heidi Dong • March 16, 2017

With an access code, BCWelltrack, students are able to sign up, create an account for WellTrack, and begin a personalized course to improve their mood through working on skills and exercises designed to address anxiety and depression.