Elizabeth Cracco Named Executive Director for Well-Being, Access and Prevention

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Elizabeth “Betsy” Cracco has been named the first-ever executive director for Well-Being, Access and Prevention in the office of Student Affairs and Campus Life.

In this new position, Cracco will lead and provide strategic direction for programs and services supporting the psychological and physical well-being of UMass Amherst students as well as demonstrate the impacts of these programs on campus student success goals. The executive director will oversee the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health (CCPH), Center for Health Promotion (CHP), Campus Recreation and Disability Services. She will also establish relationships with departments across Student Affairs and Campus Life, University Health Services and community partners. Cracco will join the UMass Amherst community in June.

Cracco is currently the director of the Counseling and Mental Health Services at the University of Connecticut where she has served as an interim director of Student Health Services, assistant director and coordinator of Clinical Services in Counseling and Mental Health Services, and the Violence Against Women Prevention coordinator. 

Cracco has a deep connection to student affairs having served as a residence director, outdoor education trainer and psychologist on several campuses.  She earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and has degrees from The College of the Holy Cross and Boston College.