Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

University administrators have been reacting in various ways to student activism, from canceling graduations to involving the police to arresting or dismissing students from school, and many schools have begun this school year with all-out encampment bans. Make mental health a natural part of the conversation.

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Active Minds

MARCH 16, 2023

“You can’t afford to not pay attention to what’s going on with student mental health.” That sentiment has inspired Active Minds’ work for nearly two decades, including the recent release of our report “Lessons from Black Colleges on Mental Health and Wellbeing.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), mental health nonprofit The Steve Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) are partnering for a national initiative to support mental health at Black colleges and universities. The initiative is a response to the declining mental health of U.S. Dr. Michael L.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

American Education Week provides a crucial opportunity to shed light on an issue that continues to be ignored: the need to support the mental health of both students and educators. The American education system needs to be full of mental health champions. And it can be.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I’ll be honest: talking about mental health and Active Minds with Rory McIlroy was not on my 2022 bingo card. Their work is unparalleled – they are young adult-focused and led, and believe strongly in Gen Z’s lived experiences around mental health being a catalyst for change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

These dynamics affect household incomes, mental health, academic success, and long-term aspirations. That includes offering mental health support tailored to trauma and grief related to incarceration and expanding caregiving support and emergency financial aid that considers household disruption due to incarceration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Over the past decade, campus mental health has bloomed into a crisis, with rates of depression and anxiety symptoms more than doubling. The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the problem, with over 60% of college students meeting the criteria for at least one mental health issue in the 2020-21 school year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A transformational paradigm shift is needed in the curation of how Black boys and young men are seen and how educators and practitioners - school counselors, teachers, resource officers, administrators, postsecondary faculty and staff - work with them. Communicate. Have courageous and vulnerable conversations with Black boys and young men.

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Active Minds

JANUARY 16, 2023

Prior to the creation of the chapter at Morgan State – one of the nation’s historically Black universities (or HBCUs) – there were no student-led organizations dedicated to addressing mental health on campus. Between Jan. Some of our events included: .

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Different diagnoses, conditions, and disabilities, both mental health-related and physical, can strain a student’s ability to succeed in an educational setting. Under those two federal laws, mental illnesses that limit one or more major life activities (i.e. Remember you are not alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Several New Jersey public colleges and research universities can apply for mental health services funding from the state, NorthJersey.com reported. The funds will come from the $15 million allocated for mental health services by the state. Phil Murphy’s administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Primm We believe that the discontinuation of affirmative action will increase isolation and decrease a sense of belonging among students of color, both of which pose risks to mental health. For nearly a decade, the Steve Fund has promoted the mental health of young people of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are needs with food, housing, mental health support and counseling. … This report is intended to inform policymakers and legislators about legislative and administrative changes needed to prioritize the success of institutions that serve underserved students. Dr. Dwayne L.

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Counselors' Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In addition, many counseling offices put together post-COVID mental health programming that was needed to help students remember how to do school in person, and how to move past the isolating effects of the pandemic. Is there overlap with community mental health services? Now is the time to ask.

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Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

We believe that educational and governmental leaders must work intentionally to ensure that research informs policy and practical changes to address the multifaceted areas of concern for Black male students, including but not limited to higher education, criminal justice, economic justice, and mental health. Dr. Robert T. Dr. Larry J.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We were out at dinner with friends one night, and we talked about forming a new group at our school, focused on kindness and mental health to prevent anyone from feeling the way our friend Ava must have felt. From here, we focused on ways to continue to boost morale and prioritize the mental health of the school.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 10, 2024

From the advisors (school counselors): Kaitlyn Robichaud and Courtney Selig This blog was written by Whitman-Hanson Regional High School’s Active Minds advisors about their experience supporting student-led efforts to advance mental health in their community. Talk about “great minds think alike!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

For determining student aid amounts, the most common factors were administrative data, Pell Grant eligibility, and specific methodologies developed by the institutions. Most institutions provided some form of guidance to students about the emergency financial aid grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2023

Some touched on administrative skills, like ones on how to engage new staff to retain leaders, how to understand your own leadership style and make it as effective as possible, and how to use national data sets to enhance teaching. Those teachers can make sure that the student winds up with opportunity.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Like many of us, I was eager to learn and grow but realized that the pressures of academia can sometimes take a toll on our mental health. Creating an Active Minds Chapter at my community college has allowed me to facilitate these conversations about mental health where they didn’t exist before.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina. My research focuses on inequities in higher education among marginalized college students and the impact of college environments on students, faculty, and administrators,” says McMickens. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

Harvey said that gender-sexuality alliances were an interesting and important indicator of the mental health of youth. state-level measure of anti-LGBTQ+ structural stigma, said Jackson. On the map, states are ranked based on nine anti-LGBTQ+ structural stigma indicators specifically relevant to youth.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 2, 2023

Before learning about the different problems people may have due to their mental health and how the stigma associated with it discourages people from seeking treatment, I had no idea what she was trying to convey to me. Adults instruct children to keep away from those who are experiencing mental health problems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

Nancy Duchesneau “Some students, including students of color, students from low-income households, or of LGBTQ+ identity, faced greater mental health challenges during the pandemic, and it’s essential that school leaders, when dealing with budget constraints, recognize those needs,” said Nancy Duchesneau, senior P-12 research manager at EdTrust.

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Active Minds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Although talking about mental health and suicide can be challenging, it is a conversation that we can’t avoid. Every year, too many young lives are impacted by mental health challenges, making suicide a significant concern. A simple tool such as A.S.K.

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Active Minds

JUNE 15, 2023

A clear connection exists between ensuring that right and creating a world where mental health is valued and prioritized. We all have a key role in mental health advocacy, and I’m excited to share with you how you can mobilize those around you to fight for a more just, and thus, a more healthy world.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 30, 2023

From middle to early high school, I struggled with suicidal ideation, depression, disordered eating, and other mental health challenges. I felt especially isolated in my rural community, where conversations about mental health were nonexistent and access to care was limited. Senate Committee on Finance at age 17.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies has received a $2.59 million grant through the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. “We We are thrilled to be selected for this funding,” said Dr. Kathryn E. Dr. Kathryn E.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Growing up in a Hispanic household where mental health was not talked about nor prioritized, it was tough for me to know what resources were available to serve me. I had no direction, only my drive to be part of the mental health advocacy world. So, my answer was slacktivism. But I didn’t know where to turn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

million American adults and teens reported having serious thoughts of suicide in 2022, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

PHOENIX-- Overall drug use among student-athletes is down and a fewer number of student-athletes are reporting mental health concerns than they did several years ago during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, binge drinking has dropped to a historic low and tobacco use among student-athletes is also on the decline.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2023

It featured corporate recruiting; presentations; engagement activities; and sessions on topics such as mental health, performance and success in life; and brand development. The NCAA has been an amazing partner of this year's summit," Summit Founder Dr. Leonard Moore said. "In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

Today, our administration is taking action that will set Maryland apart as a state that provides a quality K-12 education to its children, and a pathway for young people to serve their communities and gain real-world professional skills,” said Maryland Lt. It also establishes the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers Scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

The Graduate Employees Organization has been on strike for 20 days over matters such as higher pay, increased childcare subsidies, and increased co-pays for mental health care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This period was characterized by an increasing emphasis on computer literacy and the integration of technology into both curriculum and administrative processes. In recent years, universities have expanded mental health services, incorporating wellness programs designed to enhance the overall educational experience.

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