The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), in collaboration with the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the Healthy Minds Study, and Single Stop today announced the release of Too Distressed to Learn?, a new research report that assesses mental health among community college students. Authors Daniel Eisenberg, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Sarah Ketchen Lipson, and Katharine Broton conducted a survey of more than 4,000 students at 10 community colleges in California, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin and Wyoming that underscores the need for greater mental health services for students.
"Campus shootings make headlines, but there is a much broader public health issue--the millions of undergraduates struggling with issues like depression and anxiety," said Daniel Eisenberg, a researcher at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health and Institute for Social Research.
"Unlike many four-year university students, the majority of community college students have to work to support themselves and often their families at the same time they pursue their educational goals," said ACCT President and CEO J. Noah Brown. "Balancing time, financial and family pressures can take a great emotional toll-and many community college students often don't know where to turn to find the help that they need. Students' physical and emotional wellbeing must be maintained so that they can succeed academically, and it is our responsibility to do what we can to support them."
[For more of this story, written by David Conner, go to http://www.acct.org/news/half-...al-health-conditions]
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