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Tracking Student Health
Respiratory problems and birth control are the most common issues among students visiting health centers, growing database shows, but students with mental health issues require more care.
When a Committee Isn't Enough
A successful alcohol risk reduction campaign, student health officials say, involves coordination across the university and the city -- and no dawdling. Getting it right can reduce incidents by the hundreds.
Bucking the Trend
While other colleges have cut adjuncts' hours to avoid insurance mandates ahead of the Affordable Care Act taking effect, College of DuPage is offering some adjuncts coverage under a new "lecturer" designation.
Class Matters
Even high school valedictorians from lower-income backgrounds generally fail to enroll in top colleges, a study finds.
Anxiety, Depression, Relationships
Counseling center patients are struggling with familiar issues at slightly different levels, but some suggest the long increase of mental health problems among students may be peaking.
Not All Fun and Games
Drinking games are not all the same and students play at different risk levels, suggests research calling for more direct prevention of this type of student partying.
'I am 911'
A University of New Hampshire lecturer is dismissed after administrators question medical decisions she made leading a trip to Nicaragua. She says she could have used more support from the institution -- not condemnation.
Next Phase of Birth Control Fight
Obama proposes that religious colleges be exempt from paying for employee birth control, but those on their plans would still receive contraceptive coverage.