Health & Counseling Services
Student Health & Counseling Services provides confidential and comprehensive on-campus health care services to all full-time students. Our staff includes Nurse Practitioners, Physicians Assistants, Registered Nurses, Licensed Professional Counselors and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Health & Counseling Services staff work together to provide outreach to the campus community on topics related to physical and mental health. There is no charge for office visits; however, lab tests, certain procedures, physicals, immunizations, allergy or other injections incur charges payable by Maroon Money and most major credit cards.
Counseling services assist with the mental health needs of a learning community to better achieve personal and academic success. The professionally licensed staff provides personal and group counseling, informational programming and practical consultations, all free of charge.
Students also have access to TimelyCare telehealth services for medical and mental health needs throughout the year. These services can be reached at www.roanoke.edu/timelycare.
Health and counseling services does not provide excuse notes for class absences. Each professor establishes individual policies regarding absenteeism. Exceptions are made for those with confirmed influenza or SARS-CoV-2 infections. Students are encouraged to contact faculty members when illness or injury interferes with class attendance. In certain situations, Health & Counseling Services, with the student’s permission, may notify individual professors of s student’s illness or hospitalization.
All new full-time students are required to provide a complete health record containing medical history, immunization record, and tuberculosis screening. Students will not be able to register for classes until this record is received. Part-time students may be asked to provide documentation of immunization history in the event of a communicable disease outbreak.
Student Health & Counseling Services is located at 211 High Street, next to Chalmers Hall. We are accessible via telephone at (540) 375-2286. Additional information is available on the College website, via A to Z index.
Campus Safety
The Office of Campus Safety supports the College’s mission by providing a safe, secure and orderly campus environment where students can pursue their education and in which faculty and staff can teach and work. We pursue this goal through the protection of life, property and individual freedoms, the preservation of peace and order and the prevention of crime. Each day, we work to achieve our goals by providing efficient support services, campus patrol utilizing community policing practices, mentoring and educating students we contact, conducting professional and ethical investigations, providing effective emergency and crisis response and by employing well trained, courteous officers and staff.
Campus Safety works 24 hours a day/7 days a week to provide police and security services to the College community. Areas of responsibility include radio and phone communications, campus patrol, emergency and crisis response, alarm monitoring, escorts, safety programs, conduct code enforcement, traffic control, ID cards, motor pool and more. Officers are appointed Special Conservators of the Peace by the Circuit Court and have arrest authority on College property. The Campus Safety Office is located at 9 North College Avenue. The office can be contacted at 540-375-2310 or in the event of an emergency by using:
• one of the direct-dial emergency “Red Phones” located inside many buildings or
• “Blue Light” emergency phone towers, located in five areas of main campus, as well as at Elizabeth campus
Each fall, Campus Safety publishes an Annual Security Report and an Annual Fire Safety Report for residential facilities, in compliance with the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Annual Security Report contains information about safety and security procedures and policies on our campus. Included are campus crime statistics for the most recent three calendar years. The Annual Fire Safety Report contains fire safety information about each residence hall, as well as statistical data and fire safety policies and procedures. A “notice of availability” of the reports is distributed to all students and the reports are available to prospective students upon request by contacting the Admissions Office. The reports can also be found on the college website at http://www.roanoke.edu/inside/a-z_index/safety/reports/ annual_security_report.