Macomb Community College receives 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award
The award comes from higher education magazine Insight into Academia. The college received the award for its various student wellness initiatives.
Macomb Community College has received an award from the higher education magazine Insight into Academia. It is one of 71 recipients of the 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award thanks to its numerous initiatives and programs focused on supporting students and the campus community.
According to an article on Macomb Community College’s website, Cassandra Swiderski, who serves as the school’s director of Inclusive Curricula & Campus Enrichment Activities, was quoted as saying of the effort that has gone into the recognition, “These efforts have been decades in the making, many starting as grassroots movements that have grown into institutionalized programs supported at every level of the college. Everything we do has been consistently expanded and committed to by college leadership — an incline of progress still growing further.”
Insight into Academia will highlight the 71 recipients of the 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award in its September 2025 issue. Every institution on the list of recipients, which are located all over the country, has demonstrated innovative and far-reaching initiatives to positively impact the mental health and wellbeing of their campus community, including students, faculty, and staff.
Among the reasons for Macomb Community College’s inclusion on the list of award recipients: its SAFE@Macomb LGBTQ+ allyship program, suicide awareness and prevention programming, Macomb Multicultural International Initiatives, Veterans & Military Services Department, 24/7 mental health services for students that are free of charge, food pantries and reflection rooms, a dedicated Campus Community Care Team, mental health education for staff, and more.
Many of these initiatives by Macomb Community College have been in motion for decades. The Macomb Multicultural International Initiatives program has been running for 21 years to integrate mental health awareness into students’ everyday lives.
For more information about Macomb Community College, visit the school’s website.