The staff members of Counseling and Psychological Services are committed to creating a safe and comfortable environment for all students, conducive to the exploration of personal, social, and academic concerns. Staff members strive to value the uniqueness of students who vary in many ways, including race, ethnicity, culture, social class, national origin, gender, age, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and mental and/or physical ability. We are aware that students may experience discomfort because of reactions to any of these qualities.

To make ourselves more available and useful to everyone, we make efforts to increase the diversity of our staff, and to educate ourselves about differences between people and how they may affect our work together. We work to increase our self-awareness and to understand the prejudices that our backgrounds may have left, and strive to learn from our clients and other sources. We make ourselves available to individuals and groups in the campus community to help understand and work through conflicts caused by misunderstanding.

Last year the students who sought help from us were Asian (16%), Hispanic/Latino (10%), Black (9%), White (61%) and other (3%). One of our staff members is a liaison for LGBTQ concerns on campus, and others work closely with the EOF/ESP programs. We offer a group for Women of Color, an LGBTQ Coming Out Group, and a group for International Students dealing with acculturation concerns. We have sponsored a series of Asian films, and have reached out to student groups of many kinds in an attempt to make our services accessible and relevant to all members of the Rutgers community. If there is a particular program or group you would like to see the Center offer, please let us know. We are always open to ways of improving our services.

For comments on this web-site, contact David Chandler or call 732-932-7884.

This page last updated: November 29, 2006.

Rutgers, the State University is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution.