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MCFeed

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

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2018
12/5 – 12/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In an op-ed in the Crimson White, University of Alabama student Jessica Fulwider writes that it is important that…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Following a decision by University of North Carolina leaders to return the Confederate monument Silent Sam to campus, hundreds of protesters…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Jacob Anderson, a former Baylor University fraternity president who was accused of rape will not serve any jail time or…

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2018
11/28 – 12/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Cornell University student-led Mental Health Task Force formally submitted a letter the administration last week, outlining proposed actions to…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced its recommendation that the school build a new, $5.3 million…

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2018
11/21 – 11/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    This week, representatives from 118 universities, including Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard, gathered at the University of Pennsylvania to…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Earlier this month, an anonymous Twitter account accused two students at Davidson College of posting racist messages sympathetic to the…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Will Rainford, Catholic University‘s dean of social service has quit his leadership post, the school announced, nearly two months…

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2018
11/14 – 11/21

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    College campuses nationwide have seen an increase in the enrollment of student veterans.  A new initiative at SUNY New…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    In the Washington Post, George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera responds to a report showing weakness in the international…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    A lawsuit brought by seven women accuses Dartmouth College of allowing three prominent professors to create a culture in their department that…

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2018
11/7 – 11/13

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A new class at the University of Pennsylvania, “The Pursuit of Happiness,” will be the first large-scale undergraduate…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    David Card, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, testified in federal court as a key…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    New Education Department Title IX rules will change procedures for campus sexual assault cases. According to the most recent draft,…

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2018
10/24 – 10/31

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    According to a new study published in the Journal of American College Health, university students in the US are showing…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Three weeks into a trial gauging whether Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants, eight current and former students came to…

  • College Affordability:

    This fall, North Carolina launched a program called NC Promise that sets tuition at a flat rate-$500 a semester for…

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2018
10/17 – 10/23

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The family of Brennan Gaeth, a University of Minnesota graduate who struggled with addiction and died last year after a…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The Chronicle reports that one week into a trial challenging Harvard University’s use of race in admissions decisions, the…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Patients of George Tyndall, a former University of Southern California gynecologist accused of conducting inappropriate examinations and violating the campus’s…

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2018
10/11 – 10/17

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In August, the University of Connecticut closed the Humphrey Clinic for Individual, Couple and Family Therapy, a major mental health…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    A federal lawsuit alleging Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants began this week in Boston. The group Students for Fair Admissions, led by…

  • College Affordability:

    Berea College, which was the first integrated, co-educational college in the South, has not charged students tuition since…

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2018
10/3 – 10/9

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In an op-ed in the Daily Texan, Sanika Nayak, a student at University of Texas Austin, wrote that students…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Reports that the Trump administration had considered, but not carried out, a ban on visas to all Chinese students sent…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    On Wednesday, Rutgers University president Robert L. Barchi, sent a letter to the New Jersey institution’s governing boards…

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2018
9/26 – 10/2

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A daylong conference at Ohio State University on suicide prevention offered an opportunity for schools across the state to learn…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last week, the Common Application, a nonprofit organization that runs an online admissions platform used by more than 800…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    In an op-ed in The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University student Jasmine Edmonson argues that the LSU Police Department…

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2018
9/19 – 9/25

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    As colleges and universities across the country are ramping up their services for undergrads in distress, one priority…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Ed Meek, a former University of Mississippi administrator and donor to the school, caused a controversy with a social media…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    The hashtag #WhyIDidntReport was trending on Twitter last week, in apparent response to a morning tweet by President Trump about…

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2018
9/12 – 9/19

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A new study has found that one third of freshmen from 19 colleges in eight countries report symptoms consistent with…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    In the ongoing lawsuit against Harvard University accusing the school of bias against Asian and Asian-American applicants in its admissions…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    As a sports doctor for Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, Larry Nassar has been found guilty of assaulting more…

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