UHS and the BSC will commence standard weekly meetings, which had been held informally previously, to facilitate increased communication and efficiency, Rosenthal said.

Rosenthal, in cooperation with Hyman and Gross, is also supervising a comprehensive staff review of BSC employees to evaluate their individual duties and ability to receive credentials through UHS, which would make them official staff members of UHS.

WANTED: MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR

Rosenthal will directly oversee the BSC until the new position to coordinate mental health services and outreach campus-wide is filled. That position was posted on the Harvard employment website last Thursday, and Rosenthal said he hopes to have it filled by the start of fall semester.

Barreira said in March that the administrator would be responsible for more efficiently allocating University resources, improving outreach to students and training residential staff and faculty. The leader will also work with the Administrative Board, first-year wellness representatives, United Ministries and any other campus programs that are involved with mental health.

“It’s not necessarily internal,” Rosenthal said. “This is a very important position, the person who will report to me, directly oversee clinical and administrative operation of both UHS and BSC, the operational services, all the services.”

Hyman said last month that the administration is looking for someone who will “really get the big picture.”

“It need[s] to be somebody who is not multitasking like the president or myself, who really wakes up everyday thinking about all aspects of mental health and making sure we have a truly seamless system,” Hyman said.

The posting on the employment website specifies a person with either a Ph.D. or Psy.D. or an M.D. with psychiatric training.

“We need somebody who is both a superb critical leader but at the same time understands the boundaries of medicine and is therefore able to reach out to students in a true public health sense, meaning concern...really overall about the mental health stress levels and development issues,” Hyman said.

The University has begun a push to increase staffing at either or both UHS and the BSC, and Rosenthal’s financial staff and Vice President for Finance Ann Berman are examining ways to fund new positions, Hyman said.

“There is a great seriousness about it,” he said.

BSC Director Dr. Charles P. Ducey could not be reached for comment yesterday.

—Staff Writer Katharine A. Kaplan can be reached at kkaplan@fas.harvard.edu.