College Sexual Violence Survivors and COVID-19

**Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence/Assault** In September 2017, Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, began the process of rescinding Title IX civil rights protections for students. For background, Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that...

Abusive Homes and COVID-19

**Trigger Warning: Violence/Abuse** During the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns of college students reentering abusive home environments arise. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spanned over the past three months, entire families are quarantining together. As I discussed in my...

College Student Mental Health

“We’re overwhelmed.” I heard this over and over from college counselors who stopped by our exhibit table at the Virginia Counselors Association conference last month. At both public and private universities, in rural and urban areas of Virginia, the number of students...