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MCFeed

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

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2023
3/1 – 3/7

Highlights this Week:

  • Recognizing Differences in Women’s Mental Health:

    As we celebrate women and girls on this International Women’s Day, it is important to talk about mental…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories March is a trying time of year for thousands of high school seniors, who can expect…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

    In response to programs—first medical and law, now undergraduate —withdrawing from its rankings, the U.S. News & World…

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2023
2/22 – 2/28

Highlights this Week:

  • Webinar: The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Recent Graduates:

    Last week, the Mary Christie Institute hosted a webinar to review the findings and implications of the recent…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    Amid a string of Republican-led states considering cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming at their public…

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2023
2/15 – 2/21

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: Meeting Students Where They Are: One Professor’s Approach to Care:

    This week on The Quadcast, MCI reporter Mollie Ames speaks with Sam Dolbee, her former advisor at Harvard…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its biannual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, revealing…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    News outlets continue to buzz with updates and commentary on the College Board’s decision to modify the curriculum…

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2023
2/8 – 2/14

Highlights this Week:

  • Tackling Youth Mental Health from the Top:

    In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden emphasized the need to address mounting youth…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Wall Street Journal covers the impact of enlisting peer counselors to help support students struggling…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    After the College Board released the curriculum for its Advanced Placement African American studies course, Florida officials have…

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2023
2/1 – 2/7

Highlights this Week:

  • Webinar: The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Recent Graduates:

    The Mary Christie Institute will host a free webinar to examine the role of higher education in preparing…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) at Penn State University will be providing a FREE…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The Washington Post reports that the College Board has unveiled an altered version of its previous plans for…

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2023
1/25 – 1/31

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: The “risk-reward” problem of college student substance use:

    On a new episode of the Quadcast, MCI reporter Mollie Ames talks to Dr. Amelia Arria, director of…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories The Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Pennsylvania State University has released its annual report, finding…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    NPR covers the backlash against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state education department after their decision to…

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2023
1/18 – 1/24

Highlights this Week:

  • Quarterly: The Stress You Hand Down:

    In the winter issue of the Mary Christie Quarterly, reporter Nichole Bernier delves into the impact of parents’…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories A new survey of student affairs administrators conducted by NASPA and UWill, a college teletherapy provider,…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    As concerns tying college diversity efforts to left-wing indoctrination swirl, The Chronicle details a report from two conservative…

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2023
1/11 – 1/17

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: From classroom to conference room: Supporting the mental health of young professionals:

    This time on the Quadcast, MCI associate director Dana Humphrey hosts Sarah Lipson, PhD, EdM, principal investigator of…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories MCI’s new survey, The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young Professionals, reflects the responses of over…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    While Stanford’s decision to remove harmful language from its website received intense scrutiny from the public, Inside Higher…

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2023
1/4 – 1/10

Highlights this Week:

  • Quadcast: Experts discuss pandemic fallout on students, see new year as opportunity:

    This week on the Quadcast, two members of MCI’s Board of Directors, Andrew Shepardson and Zoe Ragouzeos, join…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main Stories Bloomberg’s Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, and Inside Higher Ed’s Joshua Kim,…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    In Forbes, Janice Gassam Asare, who advises businesses on how to foster an anti-racist, anti-oppressive workplace, sounds the…

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2023
12/28 – 1/03

Highlights this Week:

  • Mental Health Transparency Should be a Consistent Policy:

    For The New York Times, author Emi Nietfeld describes her experience applying to college a dozen years ago…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    A NPR investigation reveals that, in Pennsylvania, guards employed force with stun guns or pepper spray to compel…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The New York Times covers the imminent sentencing of William Rick Singer, who became infamous for scheming to…

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2022
12/21 – 12/27

Highlights this Week:

  • Reflecting on Mental and Behavioral Health:

    As the year comes to a close, Education Week highlights five of the major conclusions experts have drawn…

  • Student Buzz:

    In Cosmopolitan, Alicia Abramson, the Yale junior suing her university for discriminating against students with mental health disabilities,…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The Black community at the University of Virginia is tight-knit, The Washington Post writes, and members have been…

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2022
12/14 – 12/20

Highlights this Week:

  • How does college contribute to a purposeful life and wellbeing?:

    This is the question a national consortium of higher education institutions is exploring, guided by strong evidence that…

  • Mental and Behavioral Health:

    Main St​​ories This week, Inside Higher Ed hears from several experts about the major mental health challenges plaguing…

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

    The news of Harvard University appointing Claudine Gay, the current dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,…

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