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1 In 5 College Students Have Anxiety or Depression — Here’s Why
Many of us think of college as a wondrous time of new experiences and great freedom to explore new ideas and find one’s true self. In recent years, however, depression and anxiety have afflicted college students at alarming rates. As noted in the latest Center for Collegiate Mental Health report, anxiety and depression are the… Read More
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First-Generation College Students Earn Less Than Graduates Whose Parents Went to College
When discussions take place about first-generation college students, often the focus is on how disadvantaged they are in comparison to their peers whose parents went to college. Research we recently conducted shows that first-generation college students experience another form of disadvantage that lasts long after they graduate – and that is: how much they earn.… Read More
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Student Feedback Rates Male Professors Higher Than Females
Students are consistently rating male professors from English-speaking backgrounds higher than female professors or professors from non-English speaking backgrounds in course evaluations for science and business classes, a new study from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia finds. These findings are not meant to suggest that men who grow up speaking English… Read More
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Research Shows Students Are as Good as Professors in Tutorial Teaching
Professors and graduate students are at opposite ends of the university hierarchy in terms of experience, qualifications and pay. But at many universities, both do the same job: they teach tutorials offered in parallel with lectures. Our research explores whether it makes sense for professors to teach tutorials – and we found it doesn’t. They… Read More
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7 Seattle Bands College Music Fans Should Keep an Eye on
The storied Seattle music scene is known best for its ‘90s alt-rock scene — that which produced Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and Alice In Chains, among others. But Seattle’s musical legacy goes far beyond just grunge. The city is also famously the birthplace of the original guitar wizard and heavy rock pioneer Jimi Hendrix, and it… Read More
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What Public Universities Must Do to Regain Public Support
Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get it back, college presidents should worry less about how their institutions fare in college rankings and focus more on affordability, great teaching and doing research that matters most to the communities they serve. Those are among the key recommendations that various stakeholders make… Read More
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Researchers, Set an Example: Fly Less
The world is warming and ecosystems are dying. To avoid disastrous climatic change, massive reductions in CO2 emissions are required in all sectors, reaching net-zero globally no later than 2050. This requires an unprecedented and rapid change in our ways of life. In this, the world of research is challenged for two reasons. First, researchers… Read More
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How Universities, Students Can Advance Equity for Women of Color
For every dollar men are paid for working a full-time job, women are paid 80 cents. And it’s worse for young women of color — they experience poverty at nearly twice the rate of young white women. While this may be news to some, it certainly isn’t to minority women. They endure these inequalities first-hand.… Read More
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Stony Brook Models How Universities Can Help Financially-Insecure Students Succeed
Today, a college degree is perceived as a ticket to professional and economic opportunity. Of the 55 million job openings expected through 2020, only 36 percent of them can be earned with solely a high school diploma. And, on average, Americans with a bachelor’s degree earn 66 percent more than those whose education stopped after… Read More
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How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in US Cities
During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in line for donated meals. These images were reminders that for an estimated one out of eight Americans, food insecurity is a near-term risk. In California, where I teach, 80 percent of the population lives in cities.… Read More
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7 Cleveland Bands for College Music Fans to Keep an Eye on
Cleveland may be best known by music fans for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, America’s towering monument to the music industry bastions of old, but Cleveland (and neighboring Akron) quietly has a phenomenal track record of producing great bands. It’s a legacy that includes pioneers across many genres — the industrial rock group… Read More
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Why Millennials Listen When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speaks
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is now one of the biggest stars in politics. Her dance moves, along with her proposition of the Green New Deal, have made her viral on the internet and a force to be reckoned with in Washington, D.C. In a short period of time, she has become a millennial archetype. Just over… Read More
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Fossil Fuels Are Bad for Your Health and Harmful in Many Ways Besides Climate Change
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New Deal, a package of policies that would mobilize vast amounts of money to create new jobs and address inequality while fighting climate change. Led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, they are calling for massive investments in renewable energy and other measures over a… Read More
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TUN Student Spotlight: ASU Grad Makes Helping Others Look Easy
Kourtney Conn, a recent graduate from Arizona State University, is built to help others — it’s practically in her DNA. In the third grade, Conn made flyers by hand to encourage her neighbors to donate money to breast cancer research. At that age, she dreamt of growing up to be a “doctor-astronaut” who lived in… Read More
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Why Stop at Plastic Bags and Straws? The Case for a Global Treaty Banning Most Single-Use Plastics
Single-use plastics are a blessing and a curse. They have fueled a revolution in commercial and consumer convenience and improved hygiene standards, but also have saturated the world’s coastlines and clogged landfills. By one estimate 79 percent of all plastic ever produced is now in a dump, a landfill or the environment, and only 9… Read More
