Health
Michigan Tech University offers a large range of Student Health Services.
In addition, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) offers a Health and Wellness
Resource Center, located at the bottom of the stairs in the basement of the Hamar House (Building 13).
The Health and Wellness Resource Center provides information on the following topics:
- Monthly self-conducted breast exams
- Eating disorders
- Violence against women
- Sexual assault and date rape drugs
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Safer sex information and resources (including free condoms and dental dams)
- Community-specific health concerns (including information for women, students of color,
and LGBTQIA+ students)
In addition, CDI provides a lactation room at the top of the stairs on the second floor to provide a private space for nursing
mothers, as well as free pregnancy tests.
Other Wellness Resources
Health Education and Awareness Initiatives:
On-Campus Fitness:
Break Time FLSA Protections for Nursing Employees:
Safety
While Michigan Tech is one of the safest schools in the country to attend, we still
provide resources and support services to ensure that students feel secure at all
times and have access to information and assistance that will help ensure their continuing
safety. There are also a number of resources and support services available in the
local community.
Prevention Resources
This is a new iPhone app designed to help protect women and prevent assault. For more
information, please visit the app's website.
The city of Houghton, in partnership with Michigan Tech, operates a bus system that
run from 5–11 p.m. daily when classes are in session. If you need a safe ride to or
from downtown at night, you can use the public transit system. Visit public transit for more information about bus schedules, routes, and cost.
Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Courses
The Michigan Tech Department of Public Safety and Police Services offers RAD courses
each semester to teach self-defense tactics and techniques. The curriculum begins
with awareness, prevention, risk reduction, and risk avoidance, and progresses to
the basics of hands-on defense training. These courses are open to any enrolled female
student. Interested students can register through Adult Community Programs—offered through the Student Development Complex.
The Michigan Tech Department of Public Safety and Police Services also provides 24/7
escorts to accompany students to or from any location on campus. If you do not feel
comfortable or safe walking alone, you may call 906-487-2216 and request a Safe-Walk escort.
Advocacy and Support Services
Counseling Services, located in Administration Building, Room 301, provides confidential counseling for
victims of domestic violence, date rape, and sexual assault. It also offers referrals
to those who need legal or medical advocacy.
Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home (BKG)
The Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home offers temporary shelter for victims and their children in abusive relationships,
individual counseling and support groups for shelter residents and non-residents,
information and referral to appropriate agencies, and advocates to help victims work
with law enforcement and prosecutors in domestic violence cases, including assistance
with obtaining personal protection orders. All BKG services are free and confidential.
For more information, call the 24-hour crisis line at 906-337-5623.
Campus Victims Advocacy Response Team (CVART)
CVART is a peer support and crisis counseling service offered to Tech students 24 hours
per day when classes are in session. CVART is free and completely confidential. If
a student needs to talk about issues such as a breakup, abuse, GLBTQ concerns, pregnancy,
stress, or sexual assault, they can call CVART (866-661-5589) and an advocate will
meet with them.
Copper Shores provides 24-hour crisis intervention, short-term confidential crisis counseling,
referrals to local counselors, support groups, assistance with personal protection
orders, court accompaniment, legal advocacy (accompaniment and assistance dealing
with law enforcement), and medical advocacy (including sexual assault nurse examiner
services such as evidence collection, pregnancy prevention, STD prevention, and an
advocate to provide follow-up care). The Sexual Assault Hotline phone number is (906) 482-5797.
Safe Spaces
The Michigan Tech Safe Place Program is made up of a network of faculty, staff, student, and community member Allies who
serve as resources for individuals with questions or concerns related to Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) identities.
Gender-inclusive restrooms are for everyone, and can be especially useful for:
- People with disabilities or those who have personal care attendants whose gender identity
differs from one another
- Individuals with children of a different gender who would otherwise have to split
up or face misunderstanding when trying to access a restroom
- People who would otherwise have to wait in a line for a gender-specific restroom
This map lists all single-stall restrooms that lock. The "All-Gender Restroom" signs have
been installed and will continue to be installed in an effort to increase campus safety
and inclusiveness for all students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors.
Complaint Procedures
Reporting Discrimination and Harassment
Discriminatory harassment and discriminatory treatment complaints are given serious
consideration. Procedures for reporting complaints involving students are linked from this page.
Title IX Coordinator Information
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits
discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activities that receive
Federal funds.