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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
9/27 – 10/3

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The popular and controversial Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” about teen suicide was used as a springboard for…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Bonnie Johnson, an alumnus of University of Tennessee-Knoxville, returned to her alma mater to run the school’s Pride…

  • Sexual Health:

    Some colleges have started stocking vending machines on campus with the emergency contraception known as “the morning-after pill.”…

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2018
10/4 – 10/10

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Virginia Tech’s Peer Assistance for Learning (PAL) program hosted a Mind and Body Check Fair to identify students…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The University of Idaho’s student body government voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution in support of transgender and…

  • Guns on Campus:

    A Texas Tech student fatally shot a campus police officer who had apprehended him after finding drugs and…

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2018
10/11 – 10/17

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral:

    Last week, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Health Center started the Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program for students with eating…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The University of Florida is bracing for a speech by the white nationalist Richard Spencer on campus this…

  • Wellness:

    The Durango Herald, in Colorado, covers the University of Vermont’s Wellness Environment, called the WE program, which has…

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2018
10/18 – 10/24

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Kansas University Student Senate plans to review the language around mental health in the student code of…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Two signs supporting white supremacy appeared on Boston College’s campus before a “Silence is Still Violence” march protesting…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    The Daily Orange explores the discrepancy between the number of sex offences reported by the US Department of…

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2018
10/24 – 10/31

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Iowa State University is the latest school to host the travelling Active Minds display “Send Silence Packing” that…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The Daily Pennsylvanian examines the way that UPenn’s mental health services have evolved over 70 years, starting in…

  • Disability:

    By 2023, 90 percent of Kenyon College’s campus will be accessible but many students with disabilities feel the…

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2018
11/1 – 11/7

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Penn State’s student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, profiles two students struggling with mental illness. Yesterday, the Massachusetts Supreme…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The Wheaton College female soccer team is barred from competing in their conference tournament after one of the…

  • College Affordability:

    Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, argues in the Washington Post that House GOP tax…

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2018
11/8 – 11/14

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    To address the rising demand for mental health services, University of Wisconsin Madison released an online mental health…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Kansas State University is closing the campus and cancelling all classes for two hours on Tuesday to encourage…

  • College Affordability:

    New York University announced that it will offer free tuition next semester to about 50 students from Puerto…

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2018
11/15 – 11/21

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    In the summer of 2016, Devin Underhill, a student at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, summited…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The New York Times profiles Edward Blum, a financial adviser without a law degree, has orchestrated more than…

  • Disability:

    The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization that researches inequality in education, found that about two-thirds of students…

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2018
11/22 – 11/28

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    NPR profiles Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit that provides free crisis intervention through text messaging.  Volunteer counselors complete…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Students of color are calling on the University of Colorado Boulder to better support diversity on campus. At…

  • Substance Abuse:

    Connecticut College has been awarded a grant from the Connecticut Healthy Campus Initiative (CHCI) to implement an opioid…

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2018
11/29 – 12/5

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The Loyola Marymount University student senate recently passed a resolution to develop a peer-driven mental health program through…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    An independent review commissioned by the city of Charlottesville assessed the inaction of the University of Virginia Police…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    In the wake of the explosive New York Times story detailing the sexual harassment and assault allegations against…

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2018
12/5 – 12/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    This year, Anna Hope Emerson, a Yale University student, started The Yale Layer, an undergraduate publication dedicated to…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Over the past several years, students and professors across the country have demanded that statues honoring Confederates be…

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2018
12/12 – 12/19

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Carlos Arias Vivas argues in the Daily Pennsylvanian that UPenn’s 19-day winter break does not provide adequate time…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The Education Department is cutting staff at the Office for Civil Rights, leading civil right advocates to worry…

  • Greek Life:

    With increased concerns about high risk drinking, sexual assault and hazing deaths at fraternities, colleges and universities across…

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