With so much uncertainty swirling around athletics and players' futures, university leaders must be proactive in providing strategies to help them. Viktor Gladkov, Getty Images The images and emotions are almost overpowering. Empty stadiums. Abandoned locker rooms. Scrapped schedules. The...
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CAN TECH EASE STUDENTS' ANXIETY? As the school year begins, America’s campuses will be laboratories for the future of mental health care and contact tracing in the era of Covid-19. Schools and colleges abruptly pulling the plug on in-person classes this...
Drop-in counseling for Black students. Therapy groups on coping with racism. Programs for white students on how to be anti-racist. As the pandemic and the racial-injustice crisis continue to take a toll on Black people and other marginalized groups, colleges...
TimelyMD also surveyed college students on their top concerns and how they are coping with increased stress and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic. A new report from a telehealth company that specializes in higher education shows the large majority of...
72.5% of students want to return to campus even if instruction remains online In a mental survey of 2,500 college students, 75% reported feeling more anxious or stressed, 57% said they lost their summer jobs and 90% want to return to...
Eighty-five percent of college students said they are experiencing increased stress and anxiety due to the coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty about continuing their education, according to a survey conducted by TimelyMD, a higher education telehealth company. But less than a quarter...
The student writing in to Central Piedmont Community College was frantic. Her parents, she told college administrators, had lost their jobs because of Covid-19, and the family was down to crackers and a bottle of water. She didn’t see how...
With college students forced to return home during the coronavirus pandemic, many lack or have limited access to their on-campus medical or mental health care services. School doctors and counselors are licensed within their specific state and therefore cannot treat...
The coronavirus pandemic has left higher education with a list of concerns that far outnumber the available solutions – none more paramount than the health and safety of students. The quick decision-making of colleges and universities to close campuses, hold...
As the pandemic deepens, higher education has been fairly uniform in its response. Most colleges and universities have closed. Where they can, many of those institutions have pledged to convert to an online platform to complete the semester's remaining coursework....
