Resiliency: The Implementation of a Strategic Framework

As the incidences and complexity of student mental health continue to rise, there is an emphasis on the need to review the first year experience to ensure that students are prepared for the challenges they will face in post-secondary education. Institutions attempt to address the concern of student mental health by increasing the scope and number of student supports, both formal and informal, in the context of decreasing budgets and increasing student expectations. Despite institutional efforts, students continue to report confusion about available services and an increased desire for specialized supports. This OIP uses various leadership approaches and methods of change-management to describe how a postsecondary institution can adopt a strategic resiliency framework across the various administrative departments that support students. This framework is intended to allow the experts in these departments to create a resiliency program which will share important life skills associated with resilience, provide a common understanding of the available postsecondary supports, and increase the understanding of how these supports contribute to student mental wellness. This program will culminate in a common training for student peer supports, allowing for concepts of resiliency to permeate the post-secondary student community

Stability conditions and Teichm\"uller space

We consider a 3-Calabi-Yau triangulated category associated to an ideal triangulation of a marked bordered surface. Using the theory of harmonic maps between Riemann surfaces, we construct a natural map from a component of the space of Bridgeland stability conditions on this category to the enhanced Teichm\"uller space of the surface. We describe a relationship between the central charges of objects in the category and shear coordinates on the Teichm\"uller space.Comment: 65 pages. Version 2: Minor change