Spring 2021 One year. One year ago, I sat in the same kitchen typing about how different my world had become in a few short months. Today, virtual…
Life is made up of stories, moments in time captured as snapshots in our memory, of relationships and encounters, of tangible adventures and fleeting thoughts, of all that…
Displaced, confined, lost, bored, lonely. Today’s student-athletes have felt the pressures and emotional loss of the seasons that were postponed or canceled because of COVID-19. When students were…
Each year, the Willis D. Weatherford Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC) trains its student chaplains to serve the student body. Typically, this in-person, on-campus training prepares them to…
Imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear,” said Nadine Burke-Harris, a Canadian-American pediatrician, during a 2014 TEDMed talk. “Your heart starts to pound, your…
Winter 2021 We have finally made it through 2020 and are anxious to start fresh with a new year that, I hope, feels very different than the last.…
Berea College Counseling Services Over the past decade, rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts among college students have risen significantly, leading more students to seek help at…
As the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, our nation once again collided with injustice as deaths of Black men and women at…
Dr. Jan Pearce In a field where women have slowly dwindled from earning 37 percent of undergraduate degrees in 1985 to 18 percent in 2019, Dr. Jan Pearce…
Veronica Mauratic Veronica Mauratic ’22 spent her childhood constantly moving—never feeling settled, never feeling like she belonged. She homeschooled herself through middle school and finally landed in Somerset,…