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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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February 2021

02/15/2021
Chronicle of Higher Education

The stakes have never been higher for this key relationship. One college learned that the hard way.

02/14/2021
Denver Post

Enrollment at Colorado’s community colleges, MSU Denver down even more this spring after drop last fall.

02/09/2021
NET Nebraska

Sen. Matt Williams introduced the bill to create a reporting system which would be known as Safe2HelpNE. He said it could be used to report everything from threats of suicide to bullying, drug use… Read more »

02/07/2021
Everett Herald

WGU and the Northwest Indian College are working to better serve Native American students’ needs.

02/05/2021
Edutopia

A new study offers some guidance for striking a balance between class cohesion and privacy. Plus, strategies from teachers to encourage camera use in context.

 
02/04/2021
Catoosa County News

Proposals to raise the age Georgia children can drop out of school from 16 to 17 and to nix discipline reporting from a required school performance rating were the focus of debate between Georgia… Read more »

02/03/2021
Inside Higher Education

About one-third of students who sought care from their college counseling center during the second half of 2020 said their visit was related to the mental health effects of the coronavirus… Read more »

02/03/2021
NPR

Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College—a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. She's a freshman there but had started her college… Read more »

02/03/2021
HealthDay

Many young Americans are prescribed psychiatric drugs to treat medical conditions, but nearly one-third of them wind up misusing the medications, a new study finds.

02/03/2021
The Grand Haven Tribune

Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck last March, psychiatric emergency visits at Rady Children’s Hospital near San Diego have crept up as youths and teens struggle with virtual learning, social… Read more »

02/02/2021
Daily Emerald

To some students, college is synonymous with partying, and partying is synonymous with drinking. Alcohol consumption is deeply ingrained into college culture; it’s used to celebrate events like… Read more »

02/01/2021
WCNC

For decades, Black students in the United States have lagged behind their White peers in academic achievement. Experts say many factors, including racial differences in socioeconomic status,… Read more »

January 2021

01/31/2021
KRQE

The University of New Mexico has ambitious goals to help boost its graduation rates. Earlier this month, UNM President Dr. Garnett Stokes during her State of the University address… Read more »

01/31/2021
Channel 40/29 News

Dr. Josette Cline, the director of the Counseling and Psychological Services center at the University of Arkansas, said mental health is a top priority for the University, especially in a year… Read more »

01/31/2021
Washington Post

Higher education experts worry that the drop in Latinos enrolling in college could erode years of higher education gains.

01/30/2021
New York Times

The University of California, Davis, is providing free testing, masks and quarantine housing to tens of thousands of people who live nearby.

01/29/2021
Inside Higher Education

A recent survey from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics found that community college is playing a greater role in the educational trajectories of people with bachelor's… Read more »

01/29/2021
New York Times

The campus with the worst outbreak of any public college in New York is set to begin in-person classes on Monday. Some students, parents and faculty members weren’t happy about it.

01/28/2021
The Shawnee News-Star

The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) has announced Oklahoma schools will be able to use new technology that allows anyone to report outside threats using text messages.

01/28/2021
WLOX

The death of a Pearl River Central High senior earlier this month has brought current and former students together to speak out about bullying.

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