Penn is participating in the Campus Program — a collaboration between the Jed and Clinton Foundations — which is a four-year commitment requiring universities to complete self-assessments and establish an oversight committee to monitor progress on mental health efforts. 

Instead of intuition, our choices are tempered and tampered by our fear of not succeeding. These metrics of success rarely arise from our own organic origins, and instead come from being enveloped in Penn’s homogenous zones, which are aroused only by the touch of traditional success.

Both of Hamlett’s parents received phone calls from a blocked number after the disappearance.

Vera Krillov’s guest column last Wednesday showed that other students found the body image pressures on campus troubling as well. Why is it that so many of us are dissatisfied with our bodies — the same bodies that keep us moving, thinking, loving, dreaming, living?

I never used to think my four-times-a-week gym schedule and refusal to eat fatty meals more than a couple times a week was unusual or unhealthy. Freshman year at Penn, I gained 15 pounds, and my new habits were just part of a healthy lifestyle helping me shed that weight.

The University launched the 24/7 HELP line on Monday morning.

Experts say suicides on college campuses tend to happen in waves.

Penn’s mental health task force offered preliminary recommendations to student groups at an Undergraduate Assembly steering committee last week.

The death of Theodric Reed, a College senior who studied English, was ruled a suicide, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.

A new video by the 5B highlights students' positive experiences at the centers.

Penn’s mental health task force is in the process of synthesizing information and developing recommendations aimed at improving mental health resources on campus, after conducting research and interviews last semester and over the summer.

While, the Huffington Post said students and faculty would have liked more transparency and support, sources say this is not the whole story.

On Monday afternoon, the Green Ribbon Campaign — a student-led mental health and wellness advocacy coalition — held its first rally to raise questions about the current state of mental heath on campus.

Class Boards plan to add to the mental health initiatives on campus and host the Wellness Project, working with CAPS to coordinate Mental Health Week and implementing Wellness Wednesdays.

The first of a new series of semi-weekly "Talking Circles" was held on Friday evening at the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

Twelve years before Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced the creation of a task force to study mental health on campus, a similar committee presented its findings to Penn’s provost in June 2002.

Despite the abundance of degrees the committee members hold, however, there’s one glaring, crucial, inexcusable hole in this task force: a student voice. Indeed, on a committee responsible for assessing the state of mental health resources for students at Penn, there sit a whopping total of zero students.