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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
1/17 – 1/24

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity and Inclusion :

    The proportion of graduates from predominantly non-white rural schools who pursue higher education is declining. Low-income black, Hispanic,…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    Since 2015, first-semester students at the University of Missouri have been required to take the Not Anymore online training program…

  • Free Speech:

    Michigan State University will allow white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on campus in March, after settling a lawsuit…

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2018
1/24 – 1/30

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A new UCLA-led study published in Social Science and Medicine found that on college campuses where there is higher stigma…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    In the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, Lou Anna Simon, Michigan State University’s long-serving president resigned last…

  • Sexual Health and Contraception:

    Under legislation approved in the state Senate Monday, California would be the first state to require public universities to offer…

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2018
1/31 – 2/6

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity and Inclusion :

    Connor Clegg, the student body president at Texas State University apologized last week after classmates shared images and comments he…

  • Free Speech:

    The University of Chicago is hosting an event with the former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon despite protests…

  • Greek Life:

    Cornell University Fraternity Zeta Beta Tau is on a two-year probation after an investigation by the school’s fraternity and…

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2018
2/8 – 2/14

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Rebecca Alifimoff, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, argued in an op-ed for Daily Pennsylvanian that the referral…

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last week, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan offered a coalition of the state’s historically black colleges and universities up…

  • Policy:

    The Trump administration is seeking to slash nearly $4 billion in annual funding for student aid programs; these plans include…

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2018
2/15 – 2/20

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Missouri State University is hosting the “Impact Summit: College Student Mental Health Conference”, where students, medical professionals and…

  • Sexual Assault and Title IX:

    A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced a new bill,  the Accountability of Leaders in Education to…

  • Substance Use:

    According to a survey by Bowdoin’s student newspaper, the Orient, eleven percent of seniors have used cocaine during their…

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2018
2/21 – 2/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Student Success:

    At almost every college across the country, some fraction of committed incoming freshman students who do not show…

  • Physical Health:

    Ithaca College student Tra Nguyen is drafting a proposal for a 100% tobacco-free campus policy. The move follows the City…

  • Wellness:

    The Brown University Institutional Master Plan proposes the construction of a “wellness dorm” that will provide a “more integrated approach…

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2018
2/28 – 3/4

Highlights this Week:

  • Diversity and Inclusion:

    Last year, 30 elite colleges banded together with the goal of enrolling an additional 50,000 low- and moderate-income students at…

  • Eating Disorders:

    Student groups at the University of Pennsylvania are coming together for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Last week,…

  • College Affordability:

    The Chronicle reports on colleges’ use of “completion grants” – small sums of money given to students at risk…

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2018
3/7 – 3/14

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    After University of Texas President Gregory Fenves announced the school would be subsidizing counseling fees early this year, the…

  • Sexual Health and Contraception:

    Kylie Harrington, a University of Southern California, argues in an op-ed in the Daily Trojan that USC  should follow example…

  • Guns on Campus:

    In the Washington Post, Andrew Hamilton, the 16th president of New York University, writes that reversing the Dickey Amendment,…

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