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A 2011 national study found that college students with a high socioeconomic status persisted in college 25% more than students with a low socioeconomic status. [88] In fact, students with a high socioeconomic status are 1.55 times more likely to persist in college than students with a low socioeconomic status.
College students struggling with access to food are more likely to experience issues with mental health. According to a correlational study examining college freshmen living in residence halls from a large southwestern university, students who were food-insecure, were more likely to self-report higher levels of depression and anxiety, compared ...
The lack of social interaction has also been linked to higher levels of anxiety and depression, which can negatively affect students. [53] Social withdrawal also negatively affects college students’ social lives because when they feel drowsy they are less likely to seek out new experiences, which is an integral part of a student's time in ...
Jo Ann Oravec, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Business and Economics, asked her students to write about how rising prices were affecting their daily lives.
According to reporting from The Appeal, police across the nation have made more than 3,200 arrests of college students and staff who have protested for universities to divest from Israeli ...
Post-secondary students experience stress from a variety of sources in their daily life, including academics. [6] [7] In a 2017 American College Health Association report, 47.5% of post-secondary students claimed that they considered their academic stress to be 'traumatic or very difficult to handle.’ [9] Disturbed sleep patterns, social problems, and homesickness are all major factors that ...
Student activism or campus activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change. In addition to education, student groups often play central roles in democratization and winning civil rights .
Limiting LGBTQ rights, guns in schools, fights and discipline, academic changes and mental health are among the key issues facing students.