In the weeks after Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum, a first-year student at Yale, died by suicide in 2021, a group of strangers began convening on Zoom. Returning from leave will be simpler, with weight given to the opinion of the student’s health care provider. Yale is not the only elite university to face legal challenges over its mental health policies. By offering part-time study as an accommodation, Yale has provided relief beyond what Stanford did, said Monica Porter Gilbert, an attorney at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law who represented plaintiffs in both cases. Withdrawing would mean losing not just her sense of belonging, but her Yale health insurance, a prospect Dugue said she found “apocalyptic.” “She also would have lost access to the very care she needed,” he said.

Source: The Telegraph September 07, 2023 05:17 UTC