The report also recommends improving access to mental health services--efforts that UHS Director David S. Rosenthal '59 said his organization has already begun to implement.

"There have been a lot of perceptions about long waits in the past," Rosenthal said. "If you look over the last year, there have been very few waits."

Rosenthal said UHS has also tried to make its operating hours better match student schedules, to establish UHS liaisons in the Houses and increase staff during points of the year that are traditionally more stressful for students.

The report also recommends better coordination among all the different counseling and advising services available to undergraduates, graduate students and staff.

For example, undergraduates can turn to their House tutors, the Bureau of Study Counsel, peer counseling groups or UHS when they have a problem.

"[The current system is] both confusing and potentially helpful. We think the system needs to be more transparent to students," Summergrad said. "We think it's important that there not be only one portal for care."

The report addresses what a number of administrators have long acknowledged as problems.

Yesterday, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 applauded the committee's work--and said he would support further mental health training for tutors and further student input.