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The U.S. Department of Education announced Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grants to four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that were disrupted by bomb threats last year: Texas Southern University, Delaware State University, Claflin University, and Howard University.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
With a nationwide psychiatrist shortage and diminished access to mental and behavioral health help, one school's community coordinator created "Healthy Island," a once empty room now dedicated to be a safe and therapeutic space for students.
Describes how REL Midwest will partner with multiple school districts to build school leaders’ capacity in using data to reduce disparities among student groups in their sense of belonging, disciplinary actions, and absenteeism through the Data-Informed Leadership for Equity (DILE) partnership.
Describes an approach that incorporates professional learning as well as training and tools around culturally responsive practices, sense of belonging, and supporting the use of data.
The University of Iowa is turning its student union hotel into a mental health center. North Carolina’s state colleges are expanding mental health and crisis services with about $8 million from Gov. Ray Cooper. Florida State University created a new course to train faculty and staff to spot and help students battling trauma. Community colleges are stepping up, too.
Universities are constantly looking for creative ways to support students’ mental health. One university is now offering a one-credit course designed to teach emotional regulation. The ability to handle one's emotions is vital, says Amy Morgan, the creator of the course at the University of Maryland. This is especially true at a time when university counseling centers are stretched thin and off-campus therapy tends to be prohibitively expensive.
A proposed bill would expand the Janet Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program by providing up to $30,000 in loan repayment to school psychologists, resource psychologists, psychologist coordinators, social workers, social worker supervisors, and mental health coordinators in public schools.
Students from the Community College of Baltimore County write, research and produce a podcast evaluating the measures of success within higher education and the foundations of a good college.
Emotional stress is causing more students to leave college and keeping others from enrolling. This comes at a time when people need post-high school education more than ever—and the country desperately needs their talent. As the chorus over mental health grows, colleges and universities are finding new ways to extend scarce resources and build holistic networks of support for students.