The Department of Mental Health and Counseling Services aims to embrace all aspects of a student’s identity and experience. Licensed Mental Health Professionals honor the ways in which ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, culture, religion, and/or positionally can influence one’s mental health and wellbeing. Awareness of systems of injustice and clinician cultural humility are central to the services provided within DMHCS. MYWCC www.sunywcc.edu/MyWCC Westchester Community College has a student self-service web tool called MyWCC. Students can follow the on-screen instructions to activate their account and receive their User ID. Once students are logged in, look for How-To guides which are available to help students navigate through the different features of MyWCC. Students can access and update their personal information, see course offerings, register for classes, pay tuition, check on financial aid status, view academic transcripts, and access their college email account from MyWCC. Course listings and online self-registration are accessible through MyWCC. The Welcome Center runs the MyWCC Student Helpdesk – Students can contact them at MyWCCHelpdesk@sunywcc.edu with questions related to their MyWCC account. Native Plant Center www.sunywcc.edu/npc The Native Plant Center is a program of the Westchester Community College Foundation and welcomes student volunteers. Established in 1998, the Center maintains demonstration gardens on campus. Through these teaching gardens as well as through conferences, classes and field trips, the Center educates the public about the environmental necessity, economic value, and natural beauty of native plants of the Northeast. The Lady Bird Johnson Demonstration Garden is located near the East Grasslands Gate; the New American Cottage Garden and Rain Garden are located near the Administration Building. A Certificate in sustainable gardening with native plants is offered through Go Native U as part of the college’s Workforce Development and Community Education division. The Native Plant Center hosts a native plant sale each April. Online Education www.sunywcc.edu/online Online courses are delivered entirely online, using the college’s Blackboard course management system. These courses run on a semester basis and each course has a specific start and end date. Each week brings new lectures and assignments, which might include readings, quizzes, reviews of websites, participation in discussion boards, projects, or papers. Some courses will have midterms and finals, while others may have projects that take place over several weeks. Online courses also offer the same rigorous workload you’d expect in a traditional classroom setting. You should plan to spend the same amount of time in an online class as you would in any other campus-based course. Attendance Policy for Online Courses Attendance in online classes is defined by federal regulation as the active participation in a discussion forum, submission of a written assignment, or a completion of a quiz/test/exam. If a student does not complete at least one of these activities during a week’s time, they may be marked as absent for that week. Students who have NOT met attendance requirements for online courses by the census date will be considered as never attended and will be given a WN grade. Hybrid Courses
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