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SEC Uses Athletics Platform to Celebrate, Support Conference Member Faculty
The SEC has since 2012 recognized outstanding teaching and research through its SEC Faculty Achievement Awards, a program that annually honors one faculty member from each university and one overall winner for the Conference – the SEC Professor of the Year.
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Faculty are the heartbeat of any university, and since 2012 the Southeastern Conference has used its SEC Faculty Achievement and Professor of the Year Awards to honor these indispensable members of the campus community. Established by the Conference’s presidents and chancellors and administered by the provosts, this unique awards program annually recognizes exceptional teaching accomplishments and scholarly contributions.
Unsurprisingly, the pandemic along with economic uncertainty, a summer of racial injustice protests and an anxiety-inducing election cycle has negatively impacted our mental health.
The Greenville News spoke with local experts last week and they noted that demand for mental health and substance abuse services has increased in the last year anxiety, depression and addiction have increased. Mental health needs of our communities has skyrocketed, Dr. Karen Lommel, Prisma Health s chief medical officer for behavioral health, said. Both inpatient acute visits in the [emergency department] and outpatient.
Different factors have contributed to the increased stress in the past year whether its trying to work from home while your child is learning virtually, unemployment or fears of contracting COVID-19. Experts had different concerns for different groups of people, but noted elevations of mental and behavioral health challenges across the board.
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