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Describes how community colleges can help promote mental health for their students. The article calls community college an important gateway to social mobility and reports that as accessibility increases, the number of students who face mental health challenges will as well. As a result, there is a significant need for support and services that could help students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Alyssa Rodriguez, a Chicago social worker, figured she’d see more students who felt anxious, frustrated by their schoolwork, or disoriented by unfamiliar routines. A month into school, she says she underestimated the challenge ahead.
Nationwide, stigma has eased and access to care has improved thanks to research, innovations and outreach programs shared at Depression on College Campuses conferences.
A recent surge of research, practice and think-tanks explores the needs of student parents in higher education. All the shared voices reaffirm that this population of students will require much greater efforts to expand college access success.
Rates of higher education student mental health problems had already been on the rise. From 2012 to 2018, for example, the number of self-reported suicide attempts more than doubled among college undergraduates. Since then – in large part because of the pandemic – college leaders have expressed increased concern for the mental health of students.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — School shootings, online bullying and COVID-19 — they’re all topics some Central Texas counselors are discussing on a regular basis.
“I want them to feel seen, I want them to feel heard,” said Bobbi Sanchez, a high school counselor with Round Rock ISD. “We try to make them feel better.”
The phone call from her son’s school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately.
But when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, her son wasn’t sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal’s office.
How California State University students can stay on track for graduation by earning course credits during summer and intersession. As part of the Graduation Initiative 2025 efforts to eliminate graduate rate equity gaps, CSU campuses are offering more summer and intersession courses, and helping pay for them, so students can graduate in less time.