The college nurse serves on the York College Safety Committee, the AIDS Education Committee, and is involved in health outreach programs and serves as a liaison with hospitals and clinics. Health Services is located in the Academic Core, Room 1F01. The Academic Advisement Program provides opportunities for personal dialogue between faculty and students. Entering Freshmen are advised by counselors in the Division for Student DevelopmenVCounseling and then by faculty members who teach in the student's major field. Within the scope of this program of intensive and frequent advisement, the basic curricula are adapted, wherever possible, to meet the needs, strengths, and career choices of individual students.
Advisors also focus on students' study habits and the clarification of educational goals.
Besides individual advisement, faculty members are involved in helping students to secure assistance from other available sources. A faculty of experienced counselors provide counseling services to students to assist them to overcome interferences with their academic achievement and to promote their personal and career development. Counselors help students with their personal, social, and family concerns, maximize academic achievement, and make decisions about their choice of career or major, and academic difficulties in studying, etc. The counseling assistance may be rendered through group or individual contacts, and makes full use of informational files on careers, graduate and professional schools, community resources, etc. When counseling assistance of long duration is required, students are referred to specialized community agencies.