Tangled Up in the Blue- Ed Finkel
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2. Finkel, E. (2016). TANGLED UP in blue. Community College Journal, 86(5), 38-42. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1788738123?accountid=13626
3. This article is an analysis on the state of mental health facilities on community campus. The biggest point being made is that community college campuses need more resources than four year campuses even though they have less. A lot of offices that offer student mental support are also the same people that provide academic support, so the combination of the two are lethal because students need the separation. The article also cotains tactis to combat it.
4. The Author is Ed Finkel. Finkel graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. He wroked as a writer for Chicago Layer magazine, assistant editor of The Public Innovator Newsletter, managing editor for The neighborhood Works Manazine, and served as in house editor at Medill. In 2002 he become a full time freelancer. His website is here: http://edfinkel.com/
5. Academic advising is one key concept here. This is because a large issue they touch on in the article is that most mental health facilities on campus are also intertwined with academic advising, the two do not separate. Students need the time to step away from school and help themselves personally but they find it hard when because under trained academic advisers are the ones counseling students. Another few terms are anxiety, depression, and stress. These are highest reported issues among college students when campuses were surveyed. These are buzz terms that I will be using within my paper because these issues are what are found most in colleges.
6. The first quote that I found was from Amy Lehart, the president of ACAA. She stated, "You're going to do mental health counseling, but guess what you're also going to do academic advising. It can be problematic." The second quote I found was also from Lehart where she says, "In some cases, students are not aware mental health counseling exists on campus-- and in a limited number of cases-- it actually doesn't." I think that this quote really speaks to the issue. The counseling circle is so small on campus that some students do not even know they have the option, while some schools do not even have it at all.
7. This article will be a huge help! It gives me some statistics that are reliable, it jumps deep in to how campuses fail students, and it gives ways to intervene the issues. This will be a strong piece for when I talk about the condition of on campus health resources playing in to the issue of lower student welfare.
This article makes me wonder whether the austerity regime imposed by privatization is hitting community colleges especially hard, or if the problems at community colleges (which generally serve much less affluent students than 4-year schools) reflect a larger class divide when it comes to anxiety issues among students. While more affluent students can pay for treatment on their own or using the health care of their affluent parents, the less affluent students are typically on their own, depending on the health services provided by the university. This, too, grows out of privatization: those with private resources can afford good treatment, while those without find their needs under-served, both by austerity-focused governments (in the case of community colleges especially) or by schools focused on the needs of the most affluent.
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