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MCFeed

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

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2023
8/30 – 9/5

Highlights this Week:

  • From LearningWell magazine:

    The new issue of LearningWell magazine is out featuring: stories about teaching innovations that lead to improved belonging…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories NPR’s Morning Edition spoke to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, many…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Inside Higher Ed reports that Carleton College ended legacy preferences in admissions last week. In an email to…

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2023
8/23 – 8/29

Highlights this Week:

  • Yale Reaches Settlement in Mental Health Discrimination Lawsuit:

    Yale University settled a lawsuit brought by Elis for Rachel, a group representing students and alumni who accused…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Steve Fund, an organization dedicated to promoting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young…

  • Diversity Equity and Inclusion:

    The Washington Post reports that nearly a decade after ending legacy preferences in admission and expanding financial aid,…

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2023
8/16 – 8/22

Highlights this Week:

  • Medical Associations Call for More Resources to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis:

    Emergency rooms nationwide are seeing an influx of children and teens experiencing mental health crises, a problem which…

  • From LearningWell:

    In a Q&A with LearningWell, Dr. Marcus Hotaling, President of the Association for University and College Counseling Center…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In an op-ed for Scientific American, Dr. Steven Berkowitz, a professor of psychiatry at University of Colorado Anschutz…

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2023
8/10 – 8/15

Highlights this Week:

  • New Quadcast: Thinking beyond elite admissions with Kara Miller:

    On the Quadcast, Boston Globe correspondent Kara Miller comments on the new report by Raj Chetty, David Deming,…

  • From LearningWell:

    In LearningWell magazine, Mollie Ames highlights the “Bucknell-on-Purpose” Senior Dinner Seminar, a year-long class focused on “purpose,” in…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories New survey data from Gallup show that female college students are more likely to report high…

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2023
8/2 – 8/9

Highlights this Week:

  • When Supporters Struggle:

    As administrators and faculty prepare to support students arriving on campus this new school year, they have a…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Inside Higher Ed (IHE) is concluding its coverage of the Student Voice survey on health and wellness, which…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Inside Higher Ed spotlights the difficult choice facing LGBTQ+ students in Florida: whether to stay or leave for…

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2023
7/26 – 8/1

Highlights this Week:

  • Engaging students in research can lead to increased wellbeing:

    In the inaugural issue of LearningWell magazine, “Research and Wellbeing at UMaine,” describes a unique first-year experiential learning…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed, Philip J. Rosenbaum, director of counseling and psychological services at Haverford…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling against race-conscious admissions, trustees for the University of North Carolina…

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2023
7/19 – 7/25

Highlights this Week:

  • New Quadcast: Why LearningWell?:

    This week, we feature a conversation between Richard Miller, founding chair of the Coalition for Transformational Education (CTE),…

  • Mental Health:

    In an editorial in Times Higher Education, Noam Schimmel, a lecturer in international and area studies at the…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the most selective colleges…

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2023
7/5 -7/11

Highlights this Week:

  • LearningWell magazine: Where higher education meets life-long wellbeing:

    On July 24th, the Mary Christie Institute (MCI),  together with the Coalition for Transformational Education (CTE), will launch…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Inside Higher Ed compiles four strategies to consider when implementing programs aiming to support student athletes, including: make…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Affirmative Action  In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, The Chronicle of Higher Ed comprehensively covered the…

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2023
6/21 – 6/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: University of Michigan’s New Approach to Mental Health and Well-Being:

    In this week’s Quadcast, Anne Curzan, the dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed, Dave Smallen, a research psychologist with a focus on the study…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Inside Higher Ed compiled five examples of actions being taken at institutions across the U.S. to promote belonging…

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2023
6/14 – 6/20

Highlights this Week:

  • Higher Ed Braces for Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision:

    The Supreme Court is expected to deliver a decision on race-conscious admission practices used to promote a diverse…

  • Mental and Emotional Health:

    NPR Up First explores how colleges looking to improve retention and grappling with a student mental health crisis…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    In an interactive report, The Hechinger Report analyzes the representation of underrepresented minority students at flagship universities, showing…

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2023
6/07 – 6/13

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories Inside Higher Ed covers a new report from the educational consultant group College Futures Foundation, which…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    According to The Chronicle, conservative legislatures in several states are considering or enacting restrictions on teaching about race,…

  • Substance Use:

    Young adults ages 19-30 nearly doubled their past 12-month use of non-LSD hallucinogens in the United States from…

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2023
5/31 – 6/06

Highlights this Week:

  • New Quadcast: A Conversation on the Mental Health Effects of COVID-19 on Emerging Adults:

    A new paper by Dr. Jeffrey Arnett, released last week by the Ruderman Family Foundation, suggests that the…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories In an Inside Higher Ed Student Voice survey conducted in April and May, college students placed…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    As the Supreme Court is poised to decide the fate of affirmative action in higher education, a pair…

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