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Mental health
Don’t Ignore Your Moral Intuition About Phones - Cal Newport
In a recent New Yorker review of Matt Richtel’s new book, How We Grow Up, Molly Fischer effectively summarizes the current debate about the impact phones and social media are ... Read more
hbr.org-What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety.cleaned.pdf
The Learning Scientists - GUEST POST: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress
Stress significantly impacts university students, affecting their mental and physical health. There has been a constant rise of mental illnesses reports in UK Universities over the last decade (1) – linked to high academic demands, cost of living and other financial pressures, and social challenges.
Page 1 of 9 - Mental health and well-being | THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect
Advice on effective mental health support for students and staff. Find out how universities and academics can protect their campus community from spiralling stress, minimise the risk of burnout and build resilience - from institutional practices that create a culture of care to personal self-care tips for overworked academics.
March: Joy Spotting Challenge
Joy is everywhere when we decide to look for it. Join me.
Karst Journal
chronicle.com-Feeling Unappreciated Youre Not Alone.cleaned.pdf
2025HorizonActionPlanMentalHealth.pdf
Better Allies (@betterallies.bsky.social)
Planning workplace wellness activities?
Jessica N. asked, “Our employees want to highlight healthy lifestyles, perhaps by hosting a ‘step challenge’ or a 5K. While I love these ideas, we have employees who use wheelchairs. Do you have suggestions that are inclusive to everyone?”
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Fighting the End-of-Semester Blues
With some surprising takeaways from my students
Tip: Good Teaching is Emotional Work
What can we do when our capacity for emotional work is overdrawn, just when our students & our families need us the most?
Let’s Reconceptualize “Imposter Syndrome” for People of Color
Discover how the imposter phenomenon uniquely impacts people of color and the role racial discrimination plays in feelings of self-doubt. Learn what this means for students and what higher education institutions can do to create inclusive environments.
Accessibility & Mental Illness in Higher Ed | LinkedIn
CW: mental illness, trauma, suicide (Please take what you need and leave the rest.) This piece has been bubbling up inside of me, fighting to get out, for the past several months, as I've seen an increase in folks in higher education who are obsessed with talking about other people's mental illness.
timeshighereducation.com-Banning lecture capture would not free students from loneliness.pdf
Improving college campus systems for student mental health
Recent Student Voice data from Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab finds two in five college students say stress or mental health is impacting their academics a great deal, and they want help from their institutions to take the pressure off.
Academics should not have to hide any mental health issues (opinion)
Many of us have excelled professionally while privately coping with various diagnoses, afraid that revealing them will discredit us, writes Marta Elliott.
nytimes.com-PTSD Has Surged Among College Students.pdf
In Defense of Friction
Things that feel terrible but are great
insidehighered.com-Focus on loneliness for student mental health opinion.pdf
insidehighered.com-The question you should always ask about others opinion.pdf
A recent Inside Higher Ed article reported that college counseling centers have experienced an increase in the number of students who report trauma histories. In many instances, students who have experienced trauma do need the support of mental health professionals, but the truth is that our counseling colleagues can’t alone do the work of supporting students through trauma.
Discrimination exacerbates student mental health challenges
In its 2024 annual report, Penn State’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health highlights the correlation between discrimination and mental health challenges.
Wintering into a New Year
Resting, retreating, reading
insidehighered.com-Never Enough and roots of our student mental health crisis.pdf
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Professor creates three mental health day assignments
Excused absences for mental health days are growing more common for K-12 learners, but most institutions of higher education don’t allow the same flexibility. One professor shares how he offers—and holds students accountable for—mental health breaks.
insidehighered.com-The new epidemic gripping college campuses loneliness.pdf
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chronicle.com-Professors Struggle With Demands to Tend to Students Mental Health.pdf
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On Edge: Understanding and Preventing Young Adults’ Mental Health Challenges — Making Caring Common
According to our new report, young adults in the U.S. reported twice the rates of anxiety and depression as teens. They identified several drivers of these emotional challenges, including a lack of meaning and purpose.
Overcoming Imposter Anxiety, with Ijeoma Nwaogu – Teaching in Higher Ed
Ijeoma Nwaogu shares about her book on Overcoming Imposter Anxiety on episode 487 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
R3 1.16 August 31, 2023 Inside the Brains of Anxious STEM Students; New AI Resource for Faculty
This issue of R3 reviews a Trends in Neuroscience and Education article exploring the connections between anxiety, attention, and academic reasoning among college students in STEM fields.
Katie Rose Guest Pryal on Mental Health, Neurodiversity, and Being Well - the agile academic
On season 4 episode 6 of the agile academic, I’m joined Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal, law professor, speaker, and author. We talk about neurodiversity and mental health, stigma in higher ed, and being well.