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In the past year, five student athletes have taken their own lives in part due to mental health challenges they were facing. [52] There are varying opinions on the best way to approach mental health issues within the student athlete community. Some believe that schools should provide mental health counselors available for student athletes.
The most recent NCAA study involving over 23,000 student-athletes found that about two in five female student-athletes (44 percent) and one in five male athletes (17 percent) reported feeling ...
Just under half of 30,000 college students ... it hasn’t taken long for student-athletes to quickly realize they face challenges they aren’t equipped to handle on their own,” Sandra L ...
Five NCAA student-athletes in less than two months have died by suicide. ... and being a college athlete means a particular set of stressors and expectations that can make a difficult time even worse.
Student athlete (or student–athlete) is a term used principally in universities in the United States and Canada to describe students enrolled at postsecondary educational institutions, principally colleges and universities, but also at secondary schools, who participate in an organized competitive sport sponsored by that educational institution or school.
Its student body, though, is especially sensitive to any extra costs. Pell-eligible students have nearly doubled since 2007, from 32 percent to 59 percent. And in 2012, more than 14,000 Georgia State students had unmet financial need, in some cases more than $15,000 a year.
A common refrain exists in most discussions regarding the potential right for National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA college athletes to be paid for their services: the argument that college are already paid by virtue of their receipt of in-kind benefits including room and board, daily meals, and a full athletic scholarship. According to ...
College athletes could soon get dramatically different paychecks. At issue is a lawsuit called House v. the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), a class action that seeks to change ...