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How Active Minds Speakers Can Help You Create Lasting Mental Health Change

Active Minds

Research shows that peer-to-peer outreach is the best way to reduce the stigma that surrounds mental health and to encourage people to seek help if they need it. Jade’s bold, authentic, and unapologetic approach to addressing mental health is admired and respected by many.

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hung is assistant professor of health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Arnold School of Public Health. Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My She has spent the better part of 14 years in this field.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Postsecondary educators have been increasingly focused on supporting positive student mental health over the past decades. Additionally, poor mental health and toxic stress have a detrimental impact on learning and academic performance. Stress, Mental Health and Learning. times that of their peers.

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The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success

EAB

rate for students starting in fall 2009, compared to 52.4% March 21, 2022 Every student’s mental health needs are different. While this is worth celebrating, it’s also important to look at short-term retention rates to understand who is leaving community colleges early on. for students starting in fall 2020.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

Every step of the way, something pushed me to decide to go to college, to become a faculty member. There are a lot more behavioral and mental health issues, a lot more concerns about isolation. Now we’re trying to measure and understand how our faculty and staff are engaged.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Aaron Goodson, director of mental health and performance for Duke University Athletics, notes that Black student-athletes have long built community, but “in 2020, there was a demand in a lot of ways for it to be formally recognized. Filed in 2009 and decided in 2015, O’Bannon v.

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The Evolution of the Mental Health Conversation Among College Students

Timely MD

She remembers an app someone on campus mentioned, one that gives students free, 24/7 access to a behavioral health professional. Within minutes, she’s pouring her heart out to a certified professional who helps talk through the mental health struggles she’s experiencing. What has changed in mental health for college students?