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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
5/9 – 5/15

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    “Psychology and the Good Life,” a Yale University course where students learn the psychology of living a joyful,…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    A University of Florida faculty member who forcibly moved along black students as they danced onstage during a spring commencement…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    In  45 Stories of Consent on Campus The New York Times explores the complexity of sexual consent and the so-called gray…

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2018
5/2 – 5/8

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    An increase in demand for counseling services at California State University campuses hasn’t been met with a corresponding increase in…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Some students are asking to change a longtime nickname for George Washington University, arguing that “Colonials” is offensive because…

  • College Affordability:

    Congress designated $5 million in the fiscal 2018 budget to support the creation or expansion of open-educational resources:…

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2018
4/25 – 5/1

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The University of Maryland LGBT Equity Center and Counseling Center hosted a Mental Health & Self-Care in LGBTQ+ Communities discussion…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    According to a new report, “Reframing the Question of Equity,” community colleges wishing to shrink achievement gaps between…

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2018
4/18 – 4/24

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The National Alliance on Mental Illness On Campus (NAMI) at the University of Texas was recently launched to advocate for…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last week, Syracuse University fraternity, Theta Tau, was suspended from all activities and later expelled after videos surfaced that showed chapter…

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2018
4/12 – 4/18

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    The parents of former University of Pennsylvania student Olivia Kong, who died by suicide in April 2016, are suing the…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Cambridge Police Department officers arrested a Harvard undergraduate Friday night after a physical encounter with law enforcement on charges including…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Last week, women at Texas A&M held the Clothesline Project, during which t-shirts created by survivors of violence…

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2018
4/5 – 4/11

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Octavio Martinez Jr., the executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas…

  • Free Speech:

    According to a new survey by the American Council on Education, seventy percent of college presidents are somewhat or…

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2018
3/28 – 4/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, the director of the University of Maryland’s Counseling Center, wrote a column in University of Maryland’s…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Paul Quinn College in Dallas is dedicated to ending poverty. The Chronicle covered it’s President, Michael J. Sorrell,…

  • Student Success:

    Colleges are increasingly being judged by how well they retain and graduate students, especially those who are first…

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2018
3/21 – 3/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    After four students died by suicide in the 2013-2014 academic year, University of Pennsylvania’s Counseling and Psychological Services…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last week, eight University of Minnesota undergraduate and graduate student representatives presented top student concerns to the Board of Regents,…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    A former Michigan State University dean-and the former supervisor to the serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar-is now facing his own…

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2018
3/14 – 3/20

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A new study from the University of British Columbia provides evidence showing that sessions with a therapy dog can have…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Christian Picciolini, a former “white power” skinhead who spent his teens and early 20s handing out hate literature…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    The U.S. Department of Education has stopped providing details on sexual-violence investigations resolved by its Office for Civil Rights,…

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2018
12/26- 1/2

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Most of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention. The…

  • College Affordability:

    The American Talent Initiative is an effort that began with 30 member institutions committing to recruiting more students from low-to-moderate income…

  • Hunger and Homelessness:

    According to a 2015 survey at the University of Minnesota, 10 percent of students reported that they had run…

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2018
1/3 – 1/8

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    The California State Department of Justice found that Oscar Monge, a lecturer in American Indian studies at San Diego…

  • College Affordability:

    The Trump administration is considering a plan that would make it harder for former college students who accuse…

  • Greek Life:

    Pi Delta Psi, an Asian-American fraternity, has been barred from operating in Pennsylvania for 10 years  after it…

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2018
1/10 – 1/16

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Western Michigan University is hosting an event series called “Mental Health Matters: College Student Mental Health in the…

  • Diversity and Inclusion :

    A group representing the top administrators of more than 200 colleges wrote to Congressional leaders last week calling…

  • Sleep:

    A new study suggests that though driving while sleepy is as dangerous as driving while intoxicated, college students see it…

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