Mental Health as a Campus Strategy | Rethinking the Model | Peer-Driven, Community-Centered | Well-Being in Specialized Settings | The Infrastructure of Care The 2026 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award…
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Two truths are long-held on college campuses. Campus counseling centers are straining under demand they can’t meet, and students often don’t seek help until they’re already struggling. A program the University of…
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Some American college students are accessing mental health care faster and more easily than ever before. Across a small cluster of campuses, “same-day” has become the new baseline for mental health care—a…
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For many faculty and staff members, the modern campus workday has become fragmented into a series of meetings, leaving little uninterrupted time for teaching, research, advising, or strategic thinking. While collaboration is…
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College mental health centers have spent more than a decade racing to keep up with rising demand. Now a second, quieter crisis is catching up with them: the clinicians themselves are wearing…
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A simple text message might not seem like a mental health intervention—but for thousands of University of Iowa employees, a month of behavioral nudges delivered to their phones made a measurable difference.…
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For the past three years, New Jersey college students have had access to free, around-the-clock mental health support through the nation’s first statewide teletherapy program, and data from the initiative suggests it…
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Immigration enforcement in the United States has changed more in the past 18 months than in perhaps any comparable period in recent memory, and the students living in its shadow are showing…
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Most colleges measure belonging through surveys. On a February morning at Morehouse College, Sitovea Williams noticed a student who looked overwhelmed. She wasn’t his professor, an academic advisor, or a counselor. She…
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The Quiet Collapse of Federal Education Data For decades, the numbers that shaped higher education policy—enrollment trends, completion rates, graduate earnings, and financial aid patterns—flowed from two federal offices most Americans have…
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In 2022, the average college president had been on the job for 5.9 years—2.6 years less than in 2006. More than half expected to leave their positions within five years, including one-quarter…
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Retaining professional staff could be a college’s competitive advantage For years, colleges and universities have invested heavily in recruiting world-class faculty and visionary presidents. Far less attention has been paid to another…
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Workforce Pell, the biggest expansion of Pell Grant eligibility in years, opened to students on July 1—though for many colleges and states, the program is still more of a work in progress…
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For more than a century, the academic affairs department has been the foundation of how colleges and universities organize teaching, research, and faculty governance. Departments have long defined institutional identity, serving as…
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Wang, a first-year international undergraduate student from China, stopped by my office on a Monday afternoon. She appeared sad, tired, and gloomy. Wang arrived on our campus one month ago excited, hyper,…
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I have spent 31 years in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. I have survived budget cuts, skeptical boards, hostile political climates, and the whiplash of institutional commitments made and quietly abandoned.…
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