WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University is urging students, parents and community members to report “students of concern” as a means of suicide prevention and threat assessment.

The university implemented a “student of concern” program last summer that allows people to anonymously tip off school officials to students contemplating suicide, struggling with depression or threatening to harm others, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports.

Since then, the university has received nearly 100 reports over a wide range of issues, from excessive absences to relationship problems to emotional issues, according to the news site.

MORE NEWS: Know These Before Moving From Cyprus To The UK

But Purdue University’s online student newspaper, The Exponent, reports that number is much, much higher.

“According to Steven Yeagley, assistant dean of students for crisis management, over 5,000 student-of-concern reports were submitted this past school year,” according to the site.

The student of concern report form on Purdue University’s website asks for a lot of information, but only the date and location of an incident and the type of incident are required. The form also asks for the reporting person’s name, relationship to the student of concern, phone number, email address, as well as identifying information for the student of concern, like name, date of birth, gender, email address student ID number and phone number.

Reasons for reporting a student include financial changes, academic problems, relationship issues, physical changes, emotional troubles, violence in relationships, threats towards others or “other concerning behavior: Communication that does not make sense, infatuation with weapons, bombs firearms, individual is missing, (or) odd social behavior that is concerning or disruptive to others.”

“We would want somebody to complete one of these forms if they believe that there’s something that the student is struggling with — an obstacle they’re having trouble overcoming,” Yeagley told the Journal & Courier.

He said the goal is to offer students services to help with their struggles, but the student of concern reports could also lead to more drastic measures.

MORE NEWS: How to prepare for face-to-face classes

“We’ll reach out to the student and let them know about our office and let them know what our office offers,” Yeagley told The Exponent. “If there’s a concern for a student’s safety that’s expressed, then we might do it a little differently. We might involve the police in doing a well-being check.”

The student of concern reports were spawned in part based on statistics that reportedly show that more college students are depressed or anxious than ever before.

“According to a 2013 survey conducted by the American College Health Association, 57 percent of women and 40 percent of men reported experiencing episodes of ‘overwhelming anxiety’ in the past year, and 33 percent of women and 27 percent of men reported a period in the last year of feeling so depressed it was difficult to function,” The Exponent reports.

“According to the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors’ survey of counseling center directors, 95 percent of college counseling center directors surveyed said the number of students with significant psychological problems is a growing concern in their center or on campus.”

The mental health of students, however, seems to be only one of several reasons officials installed the new system. Other reasons for turning in a classmate, according to the site, include “academic dishonesty, forgery or fake I.D., disrupting a University activity, endangering oneself or others, theft or property damage, trespassing or unauthorized use of computers, student organization or violation, drugs, indecent behavior, noncompliance with University officials, harassment, alcohol or weapons on campus.”