1st Edition

Higher Education and Social Stress Understanding the Challenges and Charting Pathways Forward

By Edward P. St. John Copyright 2027
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

This timely book explores how social stress is reshaping higher education today. By placing the polarizing MAGA-DEI conflict in historical and contemporary perspective,  Higher Education and Social Stress  encourages discussion and social action within campus organizations amid dismantled social and public health programs. Drawing on higher education, political science, sociology, and mental... Read more

Preface  1. Assessing Injustices: A Human Capabilities Approach  2. Histories: The MAGA-DEI Divide Reconsidered  3. Institutions: College Development During War and Peace  4. Fear: Carnage, Mass Shootings, and ICE  5. Abuse: Sex, Silence, and Harassment  6. Quagmire: Reframing Suicide, Racism, and Institutionalism  Appendix: Epigenetics, Genomics, and Genetic Pathways: A Primer for Social Scientists and Humanists, By Bo Yang

Biography

Edward P. St. John is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education. He also served as the UM Center for Higher and Postsecondary Education’s Algo D. Henderson Collegiate Professor of Education and as Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Indiana Education Policy Center at Indiana University, USA.