It is common for new college students to explore and wonder how to develop new friendships, especially when moving away from home.
Multicultural outreach team’s student spotlight: Eaman Saleh
Unit: Student Counseling Services
Makeup lacks options for individuals with different skin tones
Makeup plays a huge role in promoting appearance ideals with the purpose of being used to disguise blemishes, imperfections, or to even enhance them. One of the biggest shortcomings in the makeup industry is providing everyone with the same equal access to buying their perfect shade
Multicultural Outreach Team’s Student Spotlight: Dani Park
Dani Park, a second-year graduate student in the sociology program as well as an Applied Community and Economic Development (ACED) fellow at Illinois State University, has a passion for empowering marginalized communities.
Supporting cultural needs of international students
Many international students have a difficult time with these new changes and develop acculturative stress. Acculturative stress is the psychological impact of adaptation to a new culture. This stress can cause anxiety, depression, and other mental and physical illnesses
Disability and Mental Health
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), adults with disabilities report mental health distress five times as often as adults without disabilities (CDC, 2020).
SMART Recovery: A new recovery support at Illinois State University
To supplement recovery support already provided through Recovery for Redbirds, Self Management and Recovery Training, better known as SMART Recovery, is offered at Illinois State.
Transgender students’ struggles on a college campus
College can be challenging for any student in a multitude of ways, but for transgender students it can present additional stressors.
Retirement party for Allyson Hawkins, December 16
Dr. Allyson Hawkins will retire from Illinois State University’s Student Counseling Services after 21 years.
White missing victims receive more attention than minoritized missing victims
Within the past 10 years, 710 indigenous people, mostly girls, went missing, and none of these cases received national media coverage. Most of the cases we hear about involve white missing victims.
Vanity sizing and how it impacts women’s body image confidence
Have you ever noticed that the size of your clothes differs depending on what store you bought the item from? There’s a name for that, and it’s called vanity sizing. Some of your favorite brands are guilty of this and it’s affecting women’s body satisfaction
