Ep. 159: Uncertainty, Disruption and Campus Mental Health
How the political climate and economic uncertainty are increasing the mental health challenges on campuses.
In 2010, a book called DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education envisioned a wholesale shift in how people learned. More than a decade later, how has that panned out?
This week’s episode features a conversation with Anya Kamenetz, the author and journalist who in 2010 tapped into an emerging set of issues around student debt, rapid technological change and political upheaval to lay out a portrait of a world in which individuals could learn when and how they wanted and be far less dependent on instructors and institutions.
She discusses the current landscape and what she got right and wrong 12 years ago.
This episode was made possible by Kaplan.
How the political climate and economic uncertainty are increasing the mental health challenges on campuses.
In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, staff in George Mason University’s department of recreation share how they teach students life skills for future success.
The federal government’s attacks on higher education and losing trust in our institutions.
In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, a professor talks about her course that takes students into unfamiliar towns via railway to engage in conversation with strangers.
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