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MCFeed

A weekly roundup of news and research on the health and wellness of college students

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2021
2/3 – 2/9

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories WGBH’s Kirk Carapezza reports on the Healthy Minds Study data from the fall of 2020, which showed…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The Justice Department withdrew its lawsuit that alleged Yale University violated federal civil-rights law by discriminating against white and Asian-American…

  • The New MCFeed:

    Welcome to the new MCFeed! As you can see, we have a new logo, which attempts to depict…

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2021
1/27 – 2/2

Highlights this Week:

  • Active Minds on a New Quadcast Episode:

    On the Quadcast this week, our topic is students taking the lead in creating change in college mental health. We…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Stephan Bisaha of Kansas News Service spoke with four college students who reflected on a semester marked by distance, isolation…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    President Biden has proposed immigration reform that would make it easier for international students who earn graduate degrees…

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2021
1/20 – 1/26

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A segment on PBS Newshour explores the pandemic’s impact on college students’ mental health as campus life, tradition and structure…

  • Webinar: Community College Mental Health and Its Impact on Student Success:

    In collaboration with the American Council on Education, the Mary Christie Foundation is holding a webinar exploring the links between…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Newly released data about the Common App confirms what has been reported anecdotally: first-generation students from low income…

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2021
1/20 – 1/26

Highlights this Week:

  • Webinar: Community College Mental Health and Its Impact on Student Success:

    In collaboration with the American Council on Education, the Mary Christie Foundation is holding a webinar exploring the links between…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A segment on PBS Newshour explores the pandemic’s impact on college students’ mental health as campus life, tradition and structure…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Newly released data about the Common App confirms what has been reported anecdotally: first-generation students from low income…

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2021
1/6 – 1/12

Highlights this Week:

  • Winter Issue of the Mary Christie Quarterly:

    We are pleased to present the first Mary Christie Quarterly of 2021, a year when the health and…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State released its 2020 annual report, summarizing the state of…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Race on Campus newsletter reports that students of color sometimes find it difficult…

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2021
12/30 – 1/5

Highlights this Week:

  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine release report on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education:

    The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a webinar, Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    On December 31st, Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin lost his son Tommy to suicide. In a beautiful and heartbreaking…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The Crimson reports that Harvard’s Undergraduate Council launched a petition calling on the school to strengthen support for international…

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2020
12/23 – 12/29

Highlights this Week:

  • Leaving 2020 Behind, Entering 2021 Burnt Out:

    Students, faculty and staff at institutions of higher education report mass burnout when reflecting on 2020 and planning for 2021. While…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A newly published study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that COVID-19…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    A federal judge blocked enforcement of the Trump administration’s executive order barring diversity training it regards as “divisive” in federally…

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2020
12/16 – 12/22

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast Episode 10: Emerson College President Lee Pelton:

    In our final Quadcast episode of 2020, President Lee Pelton of Emerson College spoke about student mental health, the pandemic,…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Nevada Independent highlighted the pandemic’s impact on University of Nevada students’ mental health. One student told the newspaper, “Now…

  • Coronavirus: Safety and Reopenings:

    The Florida Gators have been under close scrutiny after basketball player Keyontae Johnson collapsed in a game on December 12.…

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2020
12/9 – 12/15

Highlights this Week:

  • New ACE Pulse Point Survey Shows Rising Concern for Mental Health:

    The American Council on Education released the results of their latest Pulse Point Survey of college presidents showing that the…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In a column in Inside Higher Ed, Ray Schroeder asks, in the face of the emerging “mental health epidemic…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions and the Human Rights Campaign  Foundation recently released a report analyzing…

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2020
12/2 – 12/8

Highlights this Week:

  • Race, Class, and Campus Climate: A Chronicle of Higher Education Webinar:

    Tomorrow, the Chronicle is hosting the final session in a series of webinars examining race and class in higher education.…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Stanford Daily reports that social isolation is taking a toll on students’ mental health, with many reporting worsening…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Higher Ed Dive reports that a federal judge reinstated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows unauthorized…

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2020
11/24 – 12/1

Highlights this Week:

  • Preventing a Coronavirus Holiday Surge:

    Experts are concerned that Thanksgiving travel and gatherings could cause another surge of the coronavirus – “a surge…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In The Conversation, Neuroscience professors at Carleton University in Canada discuss the cumulative toll that pandemic-related stress is having…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Frustrated by the limitations of colleges’ verbal condemnation of violence against unarmed Black people and stated commitment to anti-racial…

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2020
11/18 – 11/23

Highlights this Week:

  • New Quadcast: Health, Wellness and Safety for the Holidays:

    This week, two college student health specialists came back on the Quadcast to talk about safeguarding physical and mental health…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In the Hechinger Report, Barnard College President Sian Beilock, PhD, a cognitive scientist, wrote about how the literature, including…

  • Coronavirus: Safety and Reopenings:

    A student at Livingstone College in North Carolina died last week due to complications of COVID-19. Jamesha Waddell was a…

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