Student Health and Wellness

• Significant class absences
• Sudden decline in academic performance
• Repeated missed assignments
• Difficulty managing coursework
• Concerns about academic engagement or persistence

• Homesickness or adjustment difficulties
• Family or relationship challenges
• Emotional distress
• Anxiety, stress, or feeling overwhelmed
• Grief or loss
• Social isolation or withdrawal from campus involvement

• Concerning changes in behavior
• Disruptive classroom behavior
• Aggressive or intimidating conduct
• Difficulty managing emotions
• Conflict with peers, faculty, or staff
• Behavior that is affecting a student's success or well-being

• Expressions of self-harm or hopelessness
• Threats toward self or others
• Significant health or welfare concerns
• Dangerous or risky behavior
• Suspected substance misuse impacting well-being
• Situations requiring immediate assessment and support

• Financial hardship affecting student success
• Food or housing insecurity
• Barriers to accessing campus resources
• General concerns about a student's well-being
• Any situation where outreach and support may be helpful

• Racist or otherwise exaggerated (not just expressed once to push buttons) thoughts such as, “Women should be barefoot and pregnant,” “Gays are an abomination to God and should be punished,” “Muslims are all terrorists and should be wiped off the earth.”
• Bullying behavior focused on students, faculty, or staff in the waiting room, outside the office, in the classroom, or in the residence halls.
• Directly communicated threats to staff, faculty or students, such as “I am going to kick your ass” or “If you say that again, I will end you.”
• Prolonged nonverbal, passive-aggressive behavior such as sitting with arms crossed, glaring or staring at staff, and refusing to speak or respond to questions or directives.
• Self-injurious behavior such as cutting or burning, including during a meeting or class, or exposing previously unexposed self-injuries.
• Physical assault such as pushing, shoving, or punching.
• Throwing objects or slamming doors.
• Storming out of the office or room when upset, screaming and yelling about getting revenge.
• Conversations that are designed to upset other students or staff such as descriptions of weapons, killing, or death.
• Psychotic, delusional, or rambling speech.
• Overuse of an office or staff function or time; especially when already instructed not to overuse the staff or office and on appropriate boundaries.

Source:  NaBITA.org 

• Taking/making calls, texting, using smartphones for social media, etc., while waiting in line in front of you and ignoring their turn or in the classroom.
• Frequent interruption while talking and/or repeated asking of irrelevant, off-topic questions.
• Inappropriate or overly revealing clothing, including extremely sexually provocative clothes, pajamas, or sleepwear.
• Crosstalk or carrying on side conversations while you are trying to speak. Maybe to a friend or on a phone.
• Interruptions in conversation, frequent unnecessary use of the restroom or smoke breaks that have a student up and down in class, etc.
• Poor personal hygiene that makes it difficult to continue a conversation or teach class.
• Lack of focus or paying attention to conversation.
• Excessive sighs or eye rolls or other gestures that disrupt the class environment.
• Misuse of alcohol or other substances. Attending a meeting while under the influence of a substance. Being intoxicated in class.
• Overtly disrespectful talk to staff, faculty, or other students. Interrupting the professor.
• Arguing points of contention or asking for special treatment after staff or faculty ask the student to stop.
• Eating or consuming beverages in meetings or class without permission (or in violation of office norms or class policy).
• Showing up to meetings or class in inappropriate or strange clothing that clearly disrupts the academic environment (tactical military gear, Halloween costumes when it is not Halloween, etc.).
• Reading magazines, newspapers, or books, or studying for other classes/doing other homework during a conversation with you or during class.

Source:  NaBITA.org