Resources for You Let Your Voice be Heard about Mental Health Needs at Baruch
Baruch's Healthy Minds Survey was launched to expand and improve mental health and suicide prevention efforts on campus. The survey is completely anonymous and your name will not be linked to your responses. Please participate in the survey before it closes on Wednesday, May 5, and make your voice heard! Look out for emails from the Office of Student Affairs for your unique survey registration link. Read the Guide to Surviving and Thriving at CUNY Prepared for CUNY students by CUNY students, in collaboration with faculty and staff of Healthy CUNY, this guide offers a one-stop resource for health, academic, financial, and basic-needs services at CUNY. Access the guide. FAFSA: The Guide Get every financial aid dollar you deserve. Understanding FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) can be a huge help to students and their families. This CUNY webpage will help you save time, money, and stress—debunking myths, addressing FAQs, curating contacts, and more. Healing Circles for AAPI Students Modern Health is facilitating free healing circles this month for Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American (APIDA) students who are in search of safe spaces to process the recent violence. Modern Health also offers educational webinars on how to combat anti-Asian racism that are open to all. Learn more. Services from the Counseling Center Baruch College’s Counseling Center offers students free and confidential individual and group counseling and support sessions and Black Mental Health Matters (BMHM) Support Sessions. - Individual counseling: Please visit the Counseling Center’s website or email [log in to unmask]
- Group counseling: Are you struggling, feeling lonely, wanting to make new connections, or having trouble in your relationships? The center offers two sessions of Relationship to Self and Others, which meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1–2 pm, on Zoom. To participate on Tuesday, email [log in to unmask]; to participate on Thursday, email [log in to unmask].
- Black Mental Health Matters (BMHM) Support Sessions: The center offers sessions that foster and support the growth, networking, collaboration, success, and well-being of Black students. BMHM is led by psychologists Jael Amador, PhD, and Gary Dillon, PhD, who work from a social justice and multicultural framework. On Wednesdays, 2–3 pm, via Zoom. To participate, send an email to [log in to unmask] from your Baruch student email account.
Crisis Text Line: Connect with Counselors 24/7 No reason to go it alone. Crisis Text Line provides students with immediate access to free, confidential counseling 24/7 via text. Creative Inquiry Day Calling all undergraduates: Celebrate the strength and diversity of undergraduate research and artistic expression at Baruch at Creative Inquiry Day 2021, held online during the week of May 9. Students from all majors are welcome to submit individual or group projects. Parenting Through the Pandemic: Five Things We Can Do Right Now to Support Our Kids and Ourselves Join Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, professor of psychology at Hunter College, for a workshop that will address the challenges parents are facing during the pandemic. Learn more about the upcoming session and register here. Things to Do
International Business Seminar: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor on MNE Choice of Language
Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2 pm. The Weissman Center for International Business welcomes Tailan Chi, Chair Professor of management at the Luber School of Management at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who will present a co-authored paper entitled, “Strategic Choice of Functional Language in MNCs.” If you are interested in an individual meeting with the speaker, please contact [log in to unmask] or remain on the Zoom meeting after the formal part of the seminar has concluded. Attend the event through this Zoom link. Faculty and PhD students from any discipline are welcome. No RSVP necessary. Building the Payment Layer of the Internet with Bitcoin: A Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Stark of Lightning Labs Wednesday, Apr. 28, 5–6 pm. Presented by the New York Confucius Institute at Baruch College. Elizabeth Stark, CEO and co-founder of Lightning Labs, will be in conversation with Charles Hwang, managing member and chief investment officer of Lightning Capital and adjunct at the Zicklin School, on the software that powers a payment protocol that operates bitcoin. Learn more and register here. Offshore Wind Energy: The Promise of Good Jobs & Clean Energy Wednesday, Apr. 28, 6:30–8 pm. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn about New York’s growing offshore wind energy industry, its career opportunities, and environmental benefits. Register here. The Role of Insurers in Delivering a Greener Future Thursday, Apr. 29, 12:30–2 pm. Presented by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, a panel of strategic foresight specialists and climate experts lead a wide-ranging discussion of risk in the age of climate change. Learn more and register. Critical Ecology on Films Series: Screenings and Conversations Thursday, Apr. 29, 1–2 pm. Presented by Mishkin Gallery, this series showcases work from artists/artist collectives that tackle topics around climate change crises, interspecies communication, nuclear power, and privatization of the commons. Following screenings of the work, artists join Weissman School professors for wide-ranging transdisciplinary conversations. In the upcoming session, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will be in conversation with Mishkin Gallery Director and Curator Alaina Feldman. Register here. The Past, Present and Future of Black and Latino Studies Thursday, Apr. 29, 6 pm. Join the Robert C. Weaver Society and the Department of Black and Latino Studies (BLS) for a look back on the creation of the department 50 years ago. Hear from alumni on how BLS shaped their experience and learn how BLS plans to meet this critical moment. Learn more and RSVP Assessment 101: Investing in CUNY Collaborations Friday, Apr. 30, 1 pm. Join this webinar to learn how assessment can facilitate campus-based efforts to support both student and institutional success. Register by Thursday, Apr. 29. Anti-Asian Racism: Past, Present and Change for an Inclusive Future Tuesday, May 4, 6–7:30 pm. Join the Baruch Asian Heritage Alumni Network for a discussion among distinguished expert panelists on issues related to historic and recent anti-Asian racism and violence and how collectively we can work to change this behavior and mindset in the future. Learn more and RSVP. The 19th Annual Financial Reporting Conference Attend a daylong conference and forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board. Interested students, faculty, and staff should email [log in to unmask] for a complimentary registration. Learn more about the event here. Find upcoming conference dates below. · Wednesday, May 5, 8:45–11:15 am · Thursday, May 6, 9 am–12:50 pm National Institutes of Health (NIH) Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Program Friday, May 7, 10:30 am–noon. NIH’s new SuRE program is a research capacity building program that is designed to develop and sustain research excellence in order to support and serve students who are underrepresented in biomedical research. Learn more about the program and register here. Zicklin Talks Business Webinar Series: Caught in the Vise: Corporate Responsibility and Political Spending Tuesday, May 11, 11 am. Join Lawrence Zicklin (BBA ’57), Bruce Freed, president and co-founder of the Center for Political Accountability, and Naomi Gardberg, associate professor at the Zicklin School, for a discussion on how corporations have participated in politics, possible approaches in the future, and the risks to the American political process. Learn more and RSVP here. Passing Strange: A Film by Harman Writer-in-Residence Stew Spike Lee’s 2009 adaptation of Stew’s comedy-drama rock musical about a young African American man’s artistic journey of self-discovery. Free from the Newman Library Digital Archives with a Baruch username login. Find it here. Mishkin Gallery: Virtual Art Exhibitions Wish You Were Here and Looking to Hear showcase artwork from the Baruch College Art Collection. Art in the Age of Covid-19: Solo Exhibition from the New Media Art Space and Wasserman Jewish Studies Center Prajakta Potnis: The Slow Burn presents an interactive online exhibition with eerily prescient parallels to the pandemic. | 
