Students at Harvard are experiencing mental illness at a rate that is DOUBLE the general population, according to a shocking new report.
Everyone knows that higher education in the United States needs serious reform. This is just more proof. And remember, as Harvard goes, so goes the rest of the academic world. In other words, if this is happening at Harvard, it’s happening at colleges all across the country.
Colleges and universities are simply not preparing young people to enter the real world. In some cases, higher education is actually harming their minds.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown
The Ivy League is having a mental health crisis.
“Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard, and 13 percent said they were unsure,” according to a survey of the Class of 2026 conducted by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. That’s more than double the rate of the general adult U.S. population, which the federal government’s National Institute of Mental Health estimates at 23.1 percent, noting that “Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.”
At Princeton, a senior survey conducted by the Princetonian student newspaper found 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college, with 36.3 percent getting help from the university’s counseling and psychological services and 23.8 percent finding outside assistance. That’s also much higher than the overall population; NPR reported last year on a study that found “the number of American adults getting outpatient talk therapy grew from 6.5% to 8.5%.”
Yale faced a 2022 federal lawsuit for failing to accommodate “students with mental health disabilities.” Students and alumni, organized in groups such as Mental Health Justice at Yale, the Yale Law School Mental Health Alliance, and Elis for Rachael, are still advocating; a recent Yale Daily News opinion piece, published under the headline “Yalies for mental health,” laments the quality of the counseling services on offer at the university, arguing, “many students still wait unacceptably long to see a therapist.
On a related note, student loan debt in the U.S. now tops $1.7 trillion.
Campus Reform reported:
Student debt tops $1.7 trillion as many college programs leave graduates with low earnings, weak ROI
Millions of Americans are taking on massive student loan debt for college degrees that often fail to deliver strong financial returns, as research continues to raise questions about whether many academic programs are worth the cost.
Student loan debt in the U.S. has climbed above $1.7 trillion, with the average federal borrower owing nearly $40,000.
At the same time, multiple higher education analyses suggest that some college programs leave graduates with earnings too low to justify the price of attendance.
Higher education in the U.S. is a ticking time bomb and it doesn’t even seem to be helping the students. We need major changes here.
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