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News Clips
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) tracks trends and developments in issues related to school climate and conditions for learning through online media sites, blogs, syndication and aggregation services, and other news resources from local, regional, and national media outlets. Browse this ongoing collection of posts to learn about what’s happening in communities near you and across the nation.
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Displaying 83 News Clips.April 2024
04/14/2024
Quad-City Times
04/01/2024
WCBU Peoria Public Radio
Faced with a competitive job market, mounting student debt, and uncertainty about what comes next, college students can have a lot weighing on their mental health. Active Minds is a nonprofit… Read more »
February 2024
02/19/2024
Inside Higher Ed
Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign finds college students derive belongingness from four factors, and having the cultural capital to navigate higher education is of… Read more »
02/11/2024
Northern Star
Northern Illinois University’s safety notifications have decreased exponentially. Weekly notifications of “shots fired” and “stabbings” have gone down to only five safety alerts for the entire… Read more »
December 2023
12/12/2023
Chicago Sun Times
Mental health crises are rising among girls and young women. Working on Womanhood, developed in Chicago, helped reduce symptoms of PTSD.
12/10/2023
Northern Starr | North Illinois University
Conversations surrounding mental health are becoming destigmatized, which is an important step in educating individuals about mental health. However, the grade-school education system has failed… Read more »
November 2023
11/28/2023
WBUR
This month, a group of students defied assumptions and stereotypes when they walked across a stage to receive their college diplomas from Northwestern University. Their journey… Read more »
11/14/2023
Guardian
Students of Northwestern University who have completed their coursework while serving time in prison are preparing to graduate on Wednesday and become the first such pupils to… Read more »
October 2023
10/23/2023
Chicago Business
School is firmly back in session, and the tragic reality is that too many Chicago children and teens frequently experience trauma, through gun violence, substance abuse, domestic… Read more »
10/16/2023
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona announced the recipients of the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership for 2023. All nine school leaders from the 2023 cohort of … Read more »
September 2023
09/26/2023
NBC-5 Chicago
From the University of Illinois Chicago to DePaul University and Loyola University, Chicago has recently seen an uptick in armed robberies on or near college campuses at all different times of the… Read more »
09/13/2023
Illinois.gov
College is often the first time many young people are living away from home, meaning it's more important than ever for them to understand how to create and practice a fire safety escape plan.… Read more »
09/05/2023
St. Louis Public Radio
After student violence prompted administrators to close Alton High School for two days, the district is increasing security measures by adding metal detectors and more staff in hallways between… Read more »
August 2023
08/17/2023
WPSD 6 Local News
As parents send their children off to college or university, students’ safety is top of mind. Despite recent shooting investigations in and around Carbondale, two Southern Illinois University… Read more »
July 2023
Pell Grants return to incarcerated people after nearly 30 years. Here’s what that means in Illinois.
07/28/2023
Chalkbeat Chicago
Jason Marks, 48, remembers sitting in a prison cell and thinking to himself: “Is this it? Am I going to die in prison?” Marks hit a turning point when he was transferred to East Moline… Read more »
07/06/2023
WBEZ Chicago
College enrollment for Black students in Illinois has dropped more than a third since 2010, according to the Illinois Board of Higher Education. This decline at two- and four-year colleges comes… Read more »
June 2023
06/15/2023
Marketplace Morning Edition
A stellar high school student in Brockton, Massachusetts, William Kimani earned so many credits at a nearby community college that he graduated from high school with an associate degree too. The… Read more »
May 2023
05/04/2023
Hechinger Report
As a first-generation student entering Olive-Harvey College at the height of the pandemic, Stephanie Meeks needed all the support she could find. Meeks got lucky, learning about the One Million… Read more »
April 2023
04/10/2023
Evolllution
The disruption the pandemic caused highlighted the importance of student support services—in all modalities. How an institution integrates and supports these services will shape how they meet… Read more »
04/08/2023
Northwestern Now
Two weeks after a shooting took the life of an 18-year-old Skokie resident on Clark Street Beach adjacent to Northwestern’s Evanston campus, the University continues to review its practices and… Read more »