Mary Christie Institute Mary Christie Institute
  • About Us
    • Our Mission and History
    • Who We Are
      • Leadership
      • Presidents’ Council
      • Our Partners
      • Our Funders
      • National Youth Council
      • Fellows Program
    • News
    • Contact Us
  • Focus Areas
    • Mental and Behavioral Health
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    • Sexual Assault and Title IX
    • Substance Use
    • Student Success
    • College Affordability
    • Basic Needs
    • Physical Health
  • Publications
    • MCFeed
    • Quadcast
    • MCI Research and Reports
    • Mary Christie Quarterly

MCFeed

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

Home  /  MCFeeds  /  Page 3

2023
5/24 – 5/30

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories After the U.S. Surgeon General released his report on the harmful effects of social media on…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Texas is the latest state to push forward efforts to restrict funding for diversity, equity and inclusion-related programming…

  • Student Success:

    For college enrollment, there’s good news and bad, Higher Ed Dive suggests. While the decline in enrollment appears…

Read the mcfeed
2023
5/17 – 5/23

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories This May, Mental Health Awareness Month, the U.S. government, at both the federal and state level,…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Inside Higher Ed suggests the final demographic breakdown for incoming college students could be bleak, as a survey…

  • Academic Freedom:

    For The New York Times, columnist Michelle Goldberg draws attention to an ongoing lawsuit in which a free…

Read the mcfeed
2023
5/10 – 5/16

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a likely Republican candidate for president, has signed into law a controversial bill restricting…

  • Student Success:

    Inside Higher Ed spotlights a new program at Texas Christian University that leverages human relationships as an academic…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories This graduation season ushers in the commencement of a new cohort of alumni—one for whom the…

Read the mcfeed
2023
5/3 – 5/9

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: Experts Discuss Staving off “Stopping Out”:

    On the latest episode of the Quadcast, MCI executive director Marjorie Malpiede speaks with Stephanie Marken, partner of…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories This week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s recent advisory deeming loneliness a public health challenge has…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    The Hechinger Report turns its attention to the declining enrollment of men, and particularly Black men, in higher…

Read the mcfeed
2023
4/26 – 5/2

Highlights this Week:

  • This May, a Call to Connect:

    Surgeon General Vivek Murthy kicked off mental health awareness month with his latest advisory on the epidemic of…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories One year after 17-year-old junior Jack Reid died from suicide in his dorm room at the…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    At Virginia Military Institute (VMI), chief diversity officer Martin D. Brown declared in a speech last week that…

Read the mcfeed
2023
4/19 – 4/25

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Chronicle features one approach to mental health support gaining popularity at universities around the country:…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Debate over the future of diversity, equity, and inclusion in public higher education continues to surge around the…

  • Academic Freedom:

    For The New York Times, the President of Brown University, Christina Paxton, decries state-led efforts spurred by concerns…

Read the mcfeed
2023
4/12 – 4/18

Highlights this Week:

  • Having the Conversation:

    Next week, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) will host a forum called “Reimagining…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories In another example of administrators at all levels connecting on the continued challenges of student mental…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    The Chronicle reports that senators in Florida have edited the state’s higher education bill to omit some of…

Read the mcfeed
2023
4/5 – 4/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Coming Soon: LearningWell Magazine:

    Growth is good. All of us at MCI are excited to announce that we will be launching a…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The surging visibility of mental health challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic has led…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    As more legislators around the country demand public colleges report spending on DEI programming, the future of these…

Read the mcfeed
2023
3/29 – 4/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental Health a Factor in Student Prayer Revival:

    In early February, an intimate gathering of students at Asbury University, a small Christian college in Kentucky, transformed…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Other News The Washington Post Editorial Board considers bipartisan efforts to quell the swelling teen mental health crisis,…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    The New York Times profiles the progressive writer and thinker Richard Kahlenberg, also referred to as “The Liberal…

Read the mcfeed
2023
3/22 – 3/28

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: A Wellbeing Toolkit for High Schoolers:

    This week’s guest on The Quadcast is Jen Hamilton, the director of counseling at Nobles and Greenough School,…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    Inside Higher Ed reviews a recent report from the Anti-Defamation League, finding that “antisemitic incidents,” including harassment, vandalism,…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories Last week, Gallup and the Lumina Foundation released a new report exploring the impact of mental…

Read the mcfeed
2023
3/15 – 3/21

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: To live The Good Life, invest in relationships:

    “The finding we didn’t expect and that at first we didn’t believe was the people who stayed the…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Washington Post reports on the growing number of school districts across the country that are…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Politico calls diversity programs “the new Red Scare for red states,” as fears about “woke indoctrination” on college…

Read the mcfeed
2023
3/8 – 3/14

Highlights this Week:

  • A Liberal Education and Everything Everywhere All at Once:

    On March 13-14th, over a hundred higher education leaders, faculty members, and students gathered at Arizona State University…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories Last week, the Healthy Minds Network released the results of its latest annual survey on the…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The New York Times covers a recent referendum supported by students at Wellesley College, historically a women’s college,…

Read the mcfeed
Load more
© 2025 Mary Christie Institute. All rights reserved.        Privacy Policy | Terms | CA Terms
×
×
×