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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
4/19 – 4/25

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Amherst Wire, the University of Amherst’s student paper, is running an in-depth series on depression called The…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Oklahoma University student Mikaela Hall writes about the racism implied in wearing Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) letters on…

  • Sleep:

    A recent study found that undergraduate college classes have start times that are too early for young adult…

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2018
4/26 – 5/2

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Iowa State University’s new Police Chief Michael Newton  wants to ensure that mental health cases involving campus police…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Students at California State University at Stanislaus are urging their administration to take action against fellow student Nathan…

  • Austin Attack:

    Kendrex J. White, a 21-year-old student at the University of Texas, killed one student and wounded three others…

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2018
5/3 – 5/10

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Harvard’s Student Mental Health Liaisons hosted the school’s first mental health week in the reading period before finals.…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The F.B.I. is helping American University investigate a racist incident that occurred on campus where bananas were found…

  • Substance Abuse:

    The Wall Street Journal examines universities’ response to the opioid epidemic and cites a study conducted by the…

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2018
5/10 – 5/16

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    University of Maryland students are advocating for increased mental health services for undocumented and immigrant students. The school’s…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Paul Griffiths, a professor of Catholic theology at Duke Divinity School, wrote an email to his fellow professors…

  • Substance Abuse:

    The Wall Street Journal reports that more colleges are launching campus recovery communities to help young people with…

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2018
5/17 – 5/23

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Northwestern’s International Student Association sponsored an event on mental health, encouraging students to talk about the subject even…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Bowie State senior Richard Collins III was stabbed to death just days before his graduation by a University…

  • Physical Health:

    Troy Closson, a Northwestern freshman, writes that while the campus frequently discusses mental health issues, student physical health…

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2018
5/24 – 5/30

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental Health:

    34th Street Magazine, the arts and culture magazine of the Daily Pennsylvanian, explains why some University of Pennsylvania…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The FBI is assisting campus police at the University of Maryland in determining whether or not this month’s…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Blake Wentworth, a former assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian Studies department, was dismissed after…

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2018
5/31 – 6/6

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In an op-ed for the University of California-Santa Cruz’s student paper, senior Grace Shefcik writes about the shortcomings…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Madeline Barber writes about her experience being trans at the University of Pittsburgh and about the difficulties she…

  • Eating Disorders:

    In a column for the Pitt News, Elise Lavallee calls on colleges, to increase awareness about eating disorders…

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2018
6/7 – 6/13

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental Health:

    A recent study showed that sleep disturbances are significantly correlated with alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use among college…

  • Diversity:

    Shirley M. Collado, the incoming president of Ithaca College, plans to make diversity a core principle of how…

  • Greek Life:

    The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a particularly vexing challenge for college administrators regarding greek life. When…

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2018
6/14 – 6/20

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    An editorial in the Indiana Daily Student, the student newspaper of Indiana University, argues that millennial anxiety should…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Evergreen State University was forced to move its commencement ceremony 30 miles from campus for safety reasons, more…

  • Guns on Campus:

    Erik Gilbert, a professor at Arkansas State University, writes that his support for campus carry laws stems from…

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2018
6/21 – 6/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Daily Evergreen, Washington State University’s student paper, writes about the importance of sleep, mindfulness, and mental health…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last week, Edward Morton, a University System of Florida official, was quoted saying that women make less money…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    The Education Department’s civil-rights office has closed a Title IX sexual assault investigation of Liberty University, citing a…

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2018
6/28 – 7/5

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Emotional Health:

    In California, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is expected to approve a program to educate k-12 teachers and…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Z Nicolazzo, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Adult, and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University,…

  • College Affordability:

    Anya Kamenetz, NPR’s education blogger, did some of the math on college affordability and concludes that when you…

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2018
7/6 – 7/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Emotional Health:

    The Wall Street Journal reports on “embedded counselors” who are based in campus dorms, coffee shops and other…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Nearly two years after the University of Missouri received national attention for wide-scale protests against institutional racism, freshman…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    A University of Wisconsin student who was suspended and convicted of second degree sexual assault will face no…

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