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MCFeed

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

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2020
3/5 – 3/10

Highlights this Week:

  • Coronavirus:

    As the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus continues, Inside Higher Ed reports that last week, the Centers for Disease…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The University of Connecticut held its second annual Innovate Wellness Challenge, where groups of students presented their proposals for…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Education Dive reports that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has turned to mediation in…

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2020
2/26 – 3/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Campus Safety Magazine reports that, to reduce the stigma around getting help, increase awareness about solutions and creating healthy…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    The University of Texas at Austin announced this week that firing will be the “presumptive punishment” for faculty…

  • Coronavirus:

    The Chronicle is providing continuous updates about the coronavirus on campus, including suspensions of international travel, new guidelines from the…

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2020
2/19 – 2/25

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Saint Louis Public Radio reports that The University of Missouri System is offering a mobile app to help students…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Syracuse University lifted the suspensions of dozens of student protesters amid national attention to their occupation of the private…

  • College Affordability and Free College:

    The University of Southern California announced that, starting this fall, incoming students from families earning $80,000 a year or less…

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2020
2/12 – 2/18

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Chronicle reports on Stanford University’s new mental health policy stemming from the settlement of a class-action suit regarding…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    A North Carolina judge threw out a controversial settlement in which the University of North Carolina at Chapel…

  • College Affordability:

    The Chronicle reports on a study showing that the sharp increase in the amount of merit aid offered by…

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2020
2/5 – 2/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Daily Camera reports that the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department and campus therapists are working together to…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    A federal judge struck down a Trump administration policy that made it easier to impose reentry bans on international…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s pending rules on sexual misconduct will include provisions to shore up protections for victims…

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2020
1/29 – 2/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Daily Northwestern‘s weekly mental health and self-care podcast Speak Your Mind spoke with students about their experiences…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    A faculty task force at the University of California is recommending that the system not drop standardized tests as a requirement for…

  • Gun Violence:

    The Wall Street Journal reported that two women died and a 2-year-old child was injured in a shooting at a…

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2020
1/22 – 1/28

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    American University came under fire this week for a campus-wide email that detailed the rate of students’ “unkept…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    The University of Michigan is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by its provost, Martin A. Philbert, and has placed him on administrative…

  • College Affordability:

    Recent polls have shown popular support for the idea of widespread debt cancellation, and progressive legislators have introduced…

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2020
1/15 – 1/21

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    In their new book, Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus, Dartmouth College professors John M. Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi together with…

  • College Affordability:

    A small liberal arts college in Kentucky is offering full-tuition scholarships to students from four nearby counties if…

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2020
1/8 – 1/14

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Four years ago, in the midst of its high-profile sexual assault scandal, Baylor University revamped its mental health…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Over the past 10 years, the Johns Hopkins University has quietly phased out legacy preferences in admissions, or priority given…

  • College Affordability:

    As several leading contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination discuss extending free college to four-year colleges and…

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2020
1/3 – 1/7

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    US News reports that apps, teletherapy and other digital tools are helping colleges tackle the problem of student mental…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last week, the New York Times reported on a promotional video produced by the homecoming committee at the…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    According to a new report published in the New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, the…

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2020
12/18 – 1/2

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    According to a meta-analysis recently published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, mindfulness-based intervention has at least a short-term positive…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    A homecoming video for the University of Wisconsin, featuring almost all white students, set off a reckoning over…

  • Physical Health:

    The Daily Campus, Southern Methodist University’s student newspaper, reports on the difficulties that students with chronic illnesses face…

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2019
12/11 – 12/17

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    According to Forbes, during the Learfield IMG College Intercollegiate Athletics Forum presented by Sports Business Journal in New York…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The fallout from the $2.5-million settlement that placed the statue known as “Silent Sam” in the hands of…

  • Free Speech:

    President Trump signed an executive order designed to crack down on what he sees as rising anti-Semitism on college campuses. The order drew mixed…

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