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...approach to promoting mental health awareness has been initiated through the Student Mental Health Liaisons. This student group organizes and presents the annual Mental Health Awareness week. The purpose of the event is to widely share knowledge about issues of mental health, the importance of students?? mental and emotional well-being, and increase sensitivity to those who may suffer silently. The Student Mental Health Liaisons work within each of the Houses to provide a safe space for discussing mental health issues and help locate appropriate mental health resources for peers. Informed students...
This unassuming Web site sells itself as a “chatroom for Harvard students, and only Harvard students?? and offers chatrooms for various classes. Bored? Bewildered? Head on over...
...integration of economics and sociology, “identity economics,” that takes into account the influence of social contexts on humans’ choices, has major ramifications for many areas of both corporate and policy interest, including problems that have plagued the American education system. Understanding students?? incentives through both economic and social incentives give useful ideas for improving our schools...
This theory has been brought to the fore by the groundbreaking new book, Identity Economics, by economists George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton. The two begin their investigation of students?? incentives with the traditional economic model in which students weigh the monetary costs and benefits of education. Then, however, they look at the social categories common in a school. There are “insiders” are often the jocks or high achievers who are very involved in school life. There are also “outsiders,” the “burnouts?...
Dremonas said that during former Stressbuster events, she had been surprised by students?? reluctance to leave their studies for a few minutes to receive free backrubs...