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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
1/24 – 1/30

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Emotional Health:

    In the Daily Cougar, the University of Houston’s student paper, senior Delaney Catlettstout argues that students should track…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Columbia students and faculty released preliminary findings from an ongoing research project about the school’s historical ties to…

  • Hunger and Homelessness:

    According to a recent survey of administrators at Massachusetts’ 29 public colleges and universities, the number of students…

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2018
1/17 – 1/23

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Minnesota and seven other states will receive federal funding for a pilot Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics program…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    On the night before President Trump’s inauguration, religious leaders at Amherst College formally dedicated the campus chapel as…

  • Substance Abuse:

    Penn State President Eric Barron established a task force to explore making the campus tobacco-free. One of the…

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2018
1/30 – 2/6

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Center for Collegiate Mental Health’s 2016 annual report, released last month, found that although demands for counseling…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Texas Senator Royce West, D-Dallas, expressed concern after Governor Greg Abbott appointed another white member to the University…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    In the Daily Bruin, Clea Wurster argues that UCLA fraternities should eliminate the male-to-female ratios at parties. “This…

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2018
2/7 – 2/14

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Emotional Health:

    STAT News reports on colleges’ struggles to keep up with the increasing demand for mental health services on…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    University of Michigan Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate students received multiple racist emails last week from school email…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Although Columbia has a policy against students recording gender-based misconduct adjudication processes, the Columbia Spectator reports that it…

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2018
2/14 – 2/20

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    When Rhytha Zahid Hejaze faced a mental health crisis during her freshman year at Northwestern University in Qatar,…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Seventeen leading universities, including all eight Ivy League schools, have added their support to a legal challenge to…

  • Affordable Care Act:

    The University of Minnesota requires all of its students to have health insurance, making some medical professionals on…

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2018
2/21 – 2/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Emotional Health:

    The editorial board of the University of Connecticut’s student paper, the Daily Campus, argues that the school must…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Penn’s chapter of Active Minds is hosting a “Mental Health Through My Eyes” series that brings conversations about…

  • Alcohol and Substance Abuse:

    University of Colorado student Carlisle Olsen writes on the danger of easy social acceptance of drug use on…

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2018
2/28 – 3/6

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Ernesto Hernandez, an Arizona State University student, chartered a National Alliance on Mental Illness chapter at ASU’s Downtown…

  • Inclusion and Diversity:

    Following President Trump’s reversal of the Obama administration policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    In an op-ed for Arizona State University’s student paper, Sky Jordan writes that rape culture is normalized because…

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2018
3/15 – 3/21

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral:

    The College Dean’s Advisory Board at UPenn is hoping to expand its peer to peer training program to…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    At their annual conference, participants of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education expressed their alarm…

  • Veterans:

    The University of South Carolina Alumni Association hosted a panel on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder last week featuring…

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2018
3/22 – 3/28

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral:

    University of Pennsylvania has the shortest combined mid-year breaks in the Ivy League; at the same time it…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    International applicants to Dartmouth College engineering program dropped 30 percent this year, and other top schools say they…

  • College Affordability:

    A new report from the nonprofit Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) shows that 95 percent of colleges…

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2018
3/29 – 4/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Northeastern University students now have access to Lean on Me, an anonymous peer support texting hotline, that pairs…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    In an effort to increase the diversity of its workforce, Google has invited 25 students from Howard University…

  • Alcohol and Tobacco Use:

    In Texas, a bipartisan house bill proposed increasing the purchasing age of tobacco from 18 to 21. Around…

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2018
4/4 – 4/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    STAT News interviews Lauren Carson, founder of Black Girls Smile, an organization that aims to increase awareness of…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    According to a new study published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, different minority groups internalize imposter syndrome…

  • Physical Disability:

    Valerie Piro writes about her frustrating experience visiting colleges as a prospective student in a wheelchair. “My wheelchair…

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2018
4/12 – 4/18

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    North Carolina A&T State University’s student paper compiles quotes from African American students exposing challenges of stigma about…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    In another example of colleges striving to support DACA students worried about President Trump’s immigration policies, California State…

  • Disabilities:

    The University of Georgia now offers a certificate program for young adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Students…

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