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SUNY, CUNY chiefs petition legislature for more state aid in budget - Kate Lisa, New York State of Politics

Economics and Change in Higher Education

State higher education leaders petitioned the Legislature on Thursday for greater aid in the next budget to offset a festering deficit within New York's college and university system and the planned shuttering of SUNY Downstate Medical Center. At a budget hearing in Albany, lawmakers blasted plans to close SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, expressing anger to State University of New York leaders and asking them to reconsider the hospital's future with greater public input.

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Key Resources to Inform Initiatives

Continuous Learning Institute

( A. Solano ) 10 helpful websites to inform initiatives, grants, projects, change efforts, etc. 1. National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Data and insights about student enrollment, mobility, & completion. 2. Pew Research Center: Higher Education Polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. 3.

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Youth Mental Health in 'Dire Straits' - Megan Brooks, Medscape

Economics and Change in Higher Education

More than 1 in 10 individuals between 5 and 24 years of age live with at least one diagnosable mental disorder, suggests a new report that shines a light on the global mental health crisis among young people. The burden is high in this population, with around one fifth of all disease-related disability attributable to mental disorders. The data, drawn from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, examines mental health in the 293 million people worldwide in this age group.

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