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How Kentucky universities meet student mental health needs
Lexington Herald-Leader reporters spent a summer investigating the mental health needs of Kentucky college students and how colleges in the commonwealth address those needs. See what we found through records and reporting below.
Across Kentucky, colleges and universities are facing growing needs related to the mental health of the students enrolled, and nationally, instances of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts have steadily increased in the past decade.
Anxiety and depression are prevalent concerns on most of Kentucky’s college campuses, but community college students face those challenges for different reasons than four-year university students.
Schools across Kentucky have in recent years begun expanding their reach to students through partnerships with outside companies and organizations that extend beyond the scope of a school.
Over the course of eight weeks, a group of Lexington Herald-Leader reporters set out to look at the mental health needs of Kentucky college students, and how colleges around the state are addressing those needs.
The performer was directly paid $150,000 for the free performance. The remaining $91,196.60 included but were not limited to expenditures for audio-visual equipment, alcohol, food, security and lodging.
Western Kentucky University graduates from different generations detail their experiences as queer college students before the legalization of gay marriage in Kentucky.
The demonstration was part of “Kentucky Day of DEI,” a movement at each public university in the commonwealth in response to legislation such as House Bill 4.
