Emily Berg
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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And they did this.
And so they culminated their supports into one kind of student services office.
And then from that office, you would meet with one select advisor, was the person you would speak to.
And then they would go in the background and coordinate all the other supports.
And so you may still have to, again, if you're getting mental health support, obviously you have to go then speak to a therapist.
Like you can't only speak to one person and then get all that support, but they wouldn't have to go talk to financial services and they wouldn't have to go talk to housing or residences, and they wouldn't have to talk to all these different people.
They would just have to talk to one person, which made it a lot easier for students to both access services because when you can talk to one person who knows what's available, that
Makes it a lot easier to facilitate and give the students the resources.
And it also helps the students only have to share their story once.
And so it has definitely created a really big impact at Red Deer.
We have some similar of trying to reduce red tape at the U of A and other institutions that were part of the study.
But I think for bigger institutions, it's a challenge because all of these resources are already siloed and there's a lot more staff in these areas.
And it's very hard to create a central student resources hub when you have so many students and so many resources and just like so many people to
facilitate, but I do think we could still do a better job at maybe again, maybe it's not one person, but maybe it's two people.
We can split housing and financial aid into one and mental health and food into another.
So we can still make smaller changes, maybe just not the big idealized of everyone's a circle and you only have to speak to the middle person kind of thing.
Yeah, I think for me, obviously coming from a STEM background and I was again behind the microscope looking at very minute molecules and very much again lab-based work, that I was really struggling with that aspect of yes, I'm doing research and yes, it might help someone figure out another problem down the line, but what is my impact today?
And I think that's really why I switched gears and again am now in very much public health, public policy.
See like impact roles because I do think that research is very important.
Obviously, I wouldn't be doing my PhD if I didn't love research, but I also think that it needs to be able to move and it needs to be actionable.
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