Sep 23, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Pearl River Community College's growth is a college-wide effort. From enrollment management and dual enrollment to career and technical education, student services, and campus operations, people…
You've got to have things for those students to do just to keep them busy, right?
You know, we brought on, I think you had Dr. Katie Peets on last week or the week before.
She is really taking on student engagement, and that's an area when you have this type of growth, when you have over time, you know, what students need and what students look for and really student support services, all of the above, that changes over time.
We've really improved in that area by both adding personnel and adding programs and our mental health services and Dr. Kateria Grice who is over that for us has done a tremendous job.
But our mental health services and we have a new program called Reach Out that is a 24-7 mental health crisis intervention service that we have for our students for all campuses and online.
And that's a program where you can talk to a counselor both on the phone, through text message, and you can have a virtual counselor conversation.
But, you know, the needs of students today are different than they were even a decade ago.
But, yeah, Dr. Katie Pease, back to her, she's done a tremendous job with student engagement.
So we're really excited about the job that she's done and just continue to improve our student engagement.
You've got to have things for those students to do just to keep them busy, right?
You know, we brought on, I think you had Dr. Katie Peets on last week or the week before.
She is really taking on student engagement, and that's an area when you have this type of growth, when you have over time, you know, what students need and what students look for and really student support services, all of the above, that changes over time.
We've really improved in that area by both adding personnel and adding programs and our mental health services and Dr. Kateria Grice who is over that for us has done a tremendous job.
But our mental health services and we have a new program called Reach Out that is a 24-7 mental health crisis intervention service that we have for our students for all campuses and online.
And that's a program where you can talk to a counselor both on the phone, through text message, and you can have a virtual counselor conversation.
But, you know, the needs of students today are different than they were even a decade ago.
But, yeah, Dr. Katie Pease, back to her, she's done a tremendous job with student engagement.
So we're really excited about the job that she's done and just continue to improve our student engagement.
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