Navigating Campus Mental Health in a Changing America: What Now?
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5/28/2025 12:00 PM
5/28/2025 1:00 PM
Format: Online
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Program Type: Webinar

Webinars are free, 30- to 90-minute virtual events. ACE experts, campus leaders, and other voices from within and beyond higher education discuss critical questions and promising practices around a timely topic. Registrants have the opportunity to share their questions during the live event and to access the recording afterward.

About the Webinar

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The rapid pace of changes in the United States, including anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) legislation, student visa revocations, political vitriol, reductions in research funding, and limits on free speech, affects the mental and emotional well-being of our students every day.

As we wrap up the 2024–2025 academic year and look to the next academic term, mental health and well-being remains top-of-mind for college and university leaders, students, faculty, and staff.

This open discussion with expert panelists focused on how this past academic year impacted our students and how we might anticipate and address future mental health concerns on our campuses amid an unpredictable political climate.​

Speakers
Steven Bloom
Assistant Vice President
Government Relations
​​​Steven M. Bloom came to ACE from the Independent Sector, where he served as senior lobbyist and director of government relations. As assistant vice president of Government Relations​​ at ACE, Bloom’s primary focus is on tax issues, he...
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Steven Bloom - Assistant Vice President - Host
Host
Steven Bloom
Assistant Vice President
Government Relations
Hollie Chessman
Director & Principal Program Officer
Education Futures Lab
​​Hollie M. Chessman is a director and principal program officer, and the resident college student mental health and well-being expert, at the American Council on Education (ACE). Chessman joined ACE in December 2017, bringing almost 20 years of p...
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Hollie Chessman - Director & Principal Program Officer - Moderator
Moderator
Hollie Chessman
Director & Principal Program Officer
Education Futures Lab
Sara Abelson
Assistant Professor, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and Senior Director of Training and Education, The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs, Temple University
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Sara Abelson - Assistant Professor, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and Senior Director of Training and Education, The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs, Temple University - Panelist
Panelist
Sara Abelson
Assistant Professor, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and Senior Director of Training and Education, The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs, Temple University
David P. Rivera
Associate Professor of Counselor Education, Founding Director, CUNY LGBTQI+ Student Leadership Program, and Cochair of the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council, Queens College of the City University of New York
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David P. Rivera - Associate Professor of Counselor Education, Founding Director, CUNY LGBTQI+ Student Leadership Program, and Cochair of the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council, Queens College of the City University of New York - Panelist
Panelist
David P. Rivera
Associate Professor of Counselor Education, Founding Director, CUNY LGBTQI+ Student Leadership Program, and Cochair of the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council, Queens College of the City University of New York
Eric Wood
Director, Counseling and Mental Health Center, Texas Christian University
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Eric Wood - Director, Counseling and Mental Health Center, Texas Christian University - Panelist
Panelist
Eric Wood
Director, Counseling and Mental Health Center, Texas Christian University
Resources

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​Recording​​

This webinar was recorded on May 28, 2025.

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​Partners​

This webinar is presented in partnership with the Associa​tion for University and College Counseling Center Directors, The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs​,​ and The Steve Fund.