An op-ed in The Michigan Daily suggests that mental health stigma for students has lessened in some ways but that taking real action to address these challenges, including by taking time off, is still taboo. “Inaction,” the author writes, “is a silent killer.”
Yale Daily News reports a largely positive response to Yale Community College Care—the program unfurled in spring 2021 to allow students to access counseling in their residential communities—despite ongoing concerns that it can’t meet the extent of student need.
In The Daily Northwestern, a student formerly suspended for “bad grades” discusses the shame she felt for being dismissed and encourages students to be more open with one another about their mental health.
For The Daily Barometer, the newspaper of Oregon State University, one student explores the challenges of accessing OSU’s counseling services and argues that students should be able to receive support while studying abroad.
The Breeze, the student newspaper for James Madison University, accounts how the extent of mental health problems on campus inspired a group of students to re-introduce a mental health advocacy club, Active Minds, to campus.