Services
Mental Health Counseling
All counseling and consultation services provided by the Student Counseling Center
are free to the students, faculty and staff at Hampton University. Clinical counselors
are available for emergencies on campus to provide psychological support and
if necessary, facilitate emergency hospitalization. Off-campus services may require
private health insurance.
An updated Referral and Consent to Release Information Form is now available for use by faculty and staff. It is designed to be completed with the student being referred to the Counseling Center, and should be sent to the Center via confidential envelope or fax (637-2375), but not by email.
Academic Counseling
The Student Counseling Center offers assistance in the areas of Academic Advisement,
Academic Counseling, Academic Probation, Undecided Majors, and Transfer Students.
Transfer Student Welcome Message - Spring 2011
Read more on Academic Counseling »
Rules of Confidentiality
All staff members adhere to the rules of confidentiality. Exceptions may made when there is a strong likelihood of harm to self or others, disclosures of child or elder abuse, loss of the ability to provide basic self-care because of mental disorder, or the student is under the age of 18. The exceptions are not made lightly, and only enough to facilitate safety.
Parent Involvement in Students' Life and Academic Management and Decision
Making
Although we have not conducted a formal study of the issue, Academic Counselors have noticed that it is typical for students on academic probation to have higher levels of parental involvement in their life management than other students whom they advise and counsel. Counselors, therefore, work to assist students to begin developing adult autonomy skills.
Letting Go Tips for Parents
Mental Health Counseling
All counseling and consultation services provided by the Student Counseling
Center are free to the students, faculty and staff at Hampton University.
Clinical counselors are available for emergencies on campus to provide psychological
support and if necessary, facilitate emergency hospitalization. Off-campus
services may require private health insurance.
Individual Counseling
The Student Counseling Center schedules counseling sessions with students
individually in order to discuss personal concerns and emotional distress.
Group Counseling
The Student Counseling Center holds sessions between partners, roommates,
friends, and family members upon request and when recommended by a counselor.
Group counseling is also offered for various issues such as anger and stress
management.
Crisis Counseling and Emergency Services
Emergency services are available to students who are experiencing crises.
Crisis intervention is implemented when students exhibit behavior that is
likely to prove harmful to themselves or others. See the policy on Psychiatric
Separation
Academic Counseling
Academic Advisement
Routine Advisement consists of
- Assisting Sophomores through Juniors with their class schedules for general
education core courses;
- Ensuring that Undecided students who have reached the point of selecting
their majors have the required minimum GPA for both our department (2.0)
and the Major department;
- Providing PINs for Undecided majors;
- Interpreting the various major courses of study and course sequences;
- Registration for Transfer Students and Undecided majors.
Academic Counseling
Counseling is different from advising in that it involves assisting students
to build academic discipline, and develop skills for problem preventions and
solution when necessary. Some students have issues that affect academic performance,
and may require referral to the Student Counseling Center's personal counseling
unit.
Academic Probation
Students are placed on academic probation when their cumulative grade point
average falls below a 2.0 and you are not dismissed for academic deficiency.
They are then placed on a reduced academic course load [not to exceed 13 credits];
must enroll in EDU 295 [3 credit course] which is included in the 13 credits;
and meet with an academic advisor in the Student Counseling Center. Students
are placed on academic dismissal when their cumulative grade point average
falls below the level required for the number of quality hours attempted.
Please refer to page 22 in the Hampton University 2008-2010 Academic Catalog
which covers quality point hours. Students who wish to be considered for
re-admission must (1) submit a re-admission application for provisional student
status to the Director of Admissions; (2) enroll in Hampton U. Summer Session
or in a pre-approved other accredited postsecondary institution, register
for at least 6 semester hours of non-repeated academic courses and; (3) earn
a GPA of not less than 2.5 in the courses attempted. The website [www.vtc.odu.edu/members]
lists universities and colleges in the Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher
Education. Hampton University will allow students to transfer both the grade[s]
and GPA from within the consortium. Students attending institutions outside
the consortium will receive only credits hours earned.
Undecided Students
Sophomores through seniors who have declared Undecided as
their current major will meet with their Academic Counselor/Advisor at the
Student Counseling Center for semester planning and advising. Counselors in
the office of Freshman Studies academically advise freshman who are Undecided
majors.
Transfer Students
Transfer students are those students transitioning to Hampton University
from other institutions of higher learning. The SCC facilitates the transition
process. The SCC will complete an unofficial transcript evaluation for general
core courses but not for more technical programs and upper level courses.
If Transfer students have taken 30 or more credits, they do not have to take
University 101. There is an orientation for Transfer students during the Fall
and Spring Intake periods.
