Women and Porn
Porn has traditionally been a male issue. Not any more. In a new study from Brigham Young University, the BYU researchers discovered that “49 percent of the female college students they surveyed find pornography acceptable”. More from the Desertet Morning News: That information is groundbreaking because it is a subject that hasn’t been addressed by [...]
Final Exams
Final exams are coming for all college students (and many high schoolers). This piece of ground breaking research is just in: Colleges are starting to wake up to how sleep deprivation cuts into the academic and athletic performance of their students. All-nighters have become a habit in higher education, but a handful of small new [...]
College Health Survey
In the spring of 2007 Boynton Health Service at the University of Minnesota conducted the College Student Health Survey on fourteen Minnesota college and university campuses. Among students who completed the 2007 College Student Health Survey: 27.1% report being diagnosed with at least one mental health condition (e.g., depression, anxiety, panic attacks, attention deficit disorder) [...]
Mid-Terms
Readers of this blog will know that I am an adjunct instructor at our local community college. I teach Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. Today, I gave each class an exam. After the last test I read my Intro class the riot act: The difference between this class and my class from last semester [...]
Signs Your College Student is Struggling
The Menninger Foundation has posted this article for parents of college students on their web site. According to a 2004 survey by the American College Health Association, nearly half of all college students report feeling so depressed at some point in time that they have trouble functioning, and 14.9 percent meet the criteria for clinical [...]
Collegiate Ministry
I’ve been talking with others about how to reach out to college aged adults for some time now. The advice I’ve received has consisted mostly of what not to do: 1) Don’t bother: they’ll only go to para-church campus ministries. 2) Don’t bother: young post-moderns won’t come to an established church. 3) Don’t meet in [...]
Helicopter Parents
Penn State President Graham B. Spanier offered some thoughts and opinions about this generation of college students last year. He also had some thoughts about parents. In 2011, the first Baby Boomers will turn 65 (no need to raise your hands) and within 17 years, 70 million will follow suit. These baby boomers are the [...]
Teens and Sex
Hannah Rosin, in a review for Slate, has an article titled Even Evangelical Teens Do It: How religious beliefs do, and don’t, influence sexual behavior. The article is a review of Mark Regnerus’ Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers 80 percent (of evangelical teens) think sex should be saved for [...]
Finals Week
I teach an Intro to Psych class at Tulsa Community College. I told my students at the beginning of the semester I could practically guarantee they would pass my class if they would just show up. On the first day of the course we had a frank discussion about what it takes to make a [...]
Spring Break: II
Just in time for spring break the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University has released this report on binge drinking among college students: Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America’s Colleges and Universities The report notes nearly half of full time college students binge drink while one [...]
