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Students have been calling for greater attention t

Students have been calling for greater attention to mental health, especially during and since the pandemic. The need is still acute now with rampant campus shootings, racially-motivated violence, high rates of depression and suicide, and an ongoing opioid epidemic. Furthermore, as institutions wrap up the school term and move into summer, enrollment declines — which are tied in part to students’ well-being — remain a topic of concern. “Taking Responsibility for College Student Mental Health” is the latest topic on Opportunity Forum with College Futures.

Watch the episode at https://buff.ly/3pXF3LK or via the link in our bio.

Guest host for this episode is College Futures’ Senior Program Officer, Dr. April Yee, who is joined by expert guests Dr. Tiffany Herbert, associate vice president for health & well-being at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and Dr. Lindsay Pérez Huber, professor of education at California State University, Long Beach, author, and researcher specializing in race, immigration, and higher education.

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Rates of depression and anxiety have exponentially

Rates of depression and anxiety have exponentially increased in recent years — sixty percent of college students reported experiencing one or more mental health challenges in 2021 — and this increase has also occurred unevenly across demographic groups with students from historically underrepresented groups reporting greater mental health challenges than their peers, according to College Futures’ new report “Degrees of Distress: How Higher Education Institutions Hurt and Help Student Mental Health.” View the report and executive summary at https://buff.ly/3OApC6n or via the link in our bio.

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"When Kao Lee Yang received a nomination from her

"When Kao Lee Yang received a nomination from her university for the Gilliam Fellowship by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and math, she was thrilled. She's spent years working toward her doctorate in Alzheimer's research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Yang is Asian American, and more specifically is Hmong American, part of a small minority in the United States with just 327,000 people.

Hmong Americans are still underrepresented in STEM fields and have lower education rates and higher poverty rates overall, compared to the U.S. population at large.

For example, while 24% of all Asians in the U.S. have obtained an additional degree after college, and 13% of all Americans have, just 6% of Hmong Americans have, according to the Pew Research Center's 2019 analysis of Census Bureau data. To add to that, a very low percentage of Hmong Americans actually go into STEM fields.

That's why Yang said she was "blindsided" when HHMI emailed her academic adviser saying she wasn't eligible for the fellowship because she didn't meet their requirements for who is considered underrepresented.

People who identify as Asian or white are not seen as underrepresented in STEM, according to standards set by the NIH.

That means certain fellowships, grant funding and educational opportunities that are meant for underrepresented groups, such as Latino, Black, and Indigenous people, for example, are not always extended toward Asian American applicants. The opportunities are designed to elevate groups who are historically marginalized and make sure STEM workplaces are more inclusive and equitable.

Yang isn't the only one who's experienced the contradictions that come with falling under the broad category of "Asian" in government data collection. Asian Americans have been calling attention to the issue for decades.

This is an excerpt from @NPR's article titled "Southeast Asians are underrepresented in STEM. The label 'Asian' boxes them out more." Access the full story via the link in our bio.

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Vanessa Rodriguez, administrative assistant at @CollegeFutures, reacts to findings in the Foundation's new report #DegreesOfDistress & reflects on #CollegeStudentMentalHealth as well as her own experience as a community college & university student. buff.ly/3oAnfG9 pic.twitter.com/c8pvKST9Br

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