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College Students Face Widespread Basic Needs Insecurity, New Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The "Student Basic Needs Survey Report," which analyzed responses from over 74,000 students across 91 colleges in 16 states, reveals alarming rates of food insecurity, housing instability, and mental health challenges among today's college students.

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Rethinking the Idea of Legacy in Higher Education: How Colleges Can Raise Up Student-Parents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We experienced it all: student loan debt, lack of affordable housing, mental health issues, child care challenges and underwhelming job prospects after graduation. It’s time to reframe the definition of legacy in higher education from a practice meant to exclude to one that’s inclusive of student-parents and their children.

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The Importance of LGBTQ+ Rights in Mental Health Culture

Active Minds

In the spirit of this celebration, we’re taking a stand against book bans and the attacks on transgender students, reinforcing our unwavering support for the rights of our LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and working to safeguard their mental health in every way we can.

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Your Guide to Creating Mental Health Communities at HBCUs

Active Minds

Our Active Minds Chapter at Morgan State University was definitely created out of necessity. Prior to the creation of the chapter at Morgan State – one of the nation’s historically Black universities (or HBCUs) – there were no student-led organizations dedicated to addressing mental health on campus. Between Jan.

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Fidelity Matters: Assessing Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression in P-12 and Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In doing so, we remain true to the definition of fidelity the quality or state of being faithful or loyal. Accordingly, we relate the 12 criteria to academic settings.

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How Active Minds’ Interns Champion Mental Health

Active Minds

We are so excited to work with this wonderful group of students in advancing our mission of changing the culture around mental health. Definitely any Studio Ghibli movie, but Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle are my go-to’s. My dream concert would definitely be seeing Beyoncé. Where are you from?

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“Home is Where the Heart Is”: Protecting My Mental Health as a Third-Culture Kid

Active Minds

I knew from an early age that my mom’s mental health, even though I may not have known the term “mental health” at the time, was being affected by her work in conflict areas, so I didn’t want to express to her the social, emotional, and academic struggles I was going through.