tag: Mental health

The mental health crisis across the United States is widespread, and it shows no signs of abating, with one in five adults experiencing mental illness each year. Among college students, the situation is even more pressing: approximately 60 percent of college students struggle with at least one mental health challenge. The Hope Center recently found that 44 percent of students reported experiencing clinical depression and/or anxiety. Further, 57 percent of students who stopped out without completing…

In October, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) hosted their second annual Future of Museums Summit, hosted by Elizabeth Merritt, AAM’s vice president of strategic foresight and founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums. The summit focused on four themes that emerged from this year’s TrendsWatch report: Culture Wars 2.0 What role can museums play in bridging the gaps that divide the communities they serve? This theme featured presentations relating to attacks on DEAI,…

As an important frontline community center, libraries play a vital role in connecting people to resources, services, and materials that meet their holistic needs. Over the past decade library services have grown to address the acute need for mental health and crisis support, especially in light of the growing issue of college students’ mental health. With suicide a leading cause of death in the United States, now increasing after a period of decline, efforts to help…

Dr. Jay Darr is the Director of the University Counseling Center (UCC) at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), a member of the American Talent Initiative’s (ATI) Academic Equity Community of Practice (CoP). As part of our Academic Equity Interview Blog series (for our first post we interviewed Claremont McKenna’s Nyree Gray on campus climate), we asked Dr. Darr to help…