College Bound Brief #62** In today’s world, students heading to college and graduates entering the workforce are feeling a lot. And much of it isn’t especially optimistic. But as Jodi Kantor, author of the forthcoming book How to Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work, writes in a recent opinion …
Student Health
What College Students Actually Think
College Bound Brief #56** A recent report from two top-tier educational research and polling organizations, Lumina Foundation and Gallup, shares how college students really feel compared to what the public often assumes they feel. The headlines can sometimes paint a bleak picture. The data tells …
College Bound Brief: A brief interruption—for an important perspective
College Bound Brief #55** We’re interrupting our regularly scheduled College Bound Brief—typically focused on current events in higher education—to share two timely pieces that speak directly to the stress surrounding college admissions and that offer important perspective to us, as …
Is Social Media Making College Students Lonelier?
College Bound Brief #54** As families focus on academics and admissions, new research suggests another factor deserves attention: student loneliness. A new study highlighted in Inside Higher Ed found that more than half of college students report feeling lonely, based on survey data from …