Merger 1980: the organizational integration of college mental health services.

Abstract It is an expression of common wisdom that the only thing certain in life is change. Any organization's life history is comprised of a beginning, a process of evolution, then a point in time when it comes to an end. One of the processes that combines these latter two stages is organizational merger. It represents both a type of evolutional change, and in some cases also represents discontinuation of the organization. This paper will discuss the process of organizational merger in college health services, and specifically, the merger of a traditional counseling center with a traditional comprehensive student health center's mental health unit at Indiana University, Bloomington.