The Wellness Center is currently in transition
Wellness Center Initiative
The Wellness Center Initiative is the result of several years of hard work by student leaders and their campus partners. The GA and ASUC began working together on student wellness in 2014. The GA developed the first-in-UC Graduate Student Wellbeing survey in 2014, and, in coordination with the ASUC, developed the UC Berkeley Wellness Fee Referendum. Funds from the Wellness Fee supported the GA Wellness Center’s build-out and ongoing staffing, and the office opened in 2018. Literature increasingly documents the challenges to mental health that graduate studies entail, and the GA believes that specialists who understand the unique difficulties of graduate study are essential to addressing this reality.