Recent Student Voice data from Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab finds two in five college students say stress or mental health is impacting their academics a great deal, and they want help from their institutions to take the pressure off. “We’re living in an age of anxiety,” says Melissa Saunders, assistant director of clinical services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). “There are major life stressors going on all across the world—climate change, terrible wars, toxic political discourse—that students have no control over and are completely bombarded with all the time. That is an awful lot to handle at age 18, 19, 20.”
