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“Postvention” protocols are valuable tools for colleges dealing with a suicide. But not every university is as prepared as it should be when a tragedy occurs. What happens when a death by suicide occurs at a small, rural college campus that lacks the mental health infrastructure to support all the students gripped by grief, guilt or fear? In the past, those students might have been forced to navigate the aftermath all alone or draw on the surrounding community—which might be constrained by its own mental health shortages. Now, however, the college can call the Jed Foundation (JED).

The University of Wisconsin on Saturday voted in favor of rejecting a deal that would have scaled back DEI initiatives in exchange for pay raises and more funding.

Clashes over DEI funding between the UW system and Republican legislators led to an impasse that lasted six months. Leaders have reached a deal to move on, but at what cost? A nearly six-month standoff between the Universities of Wisconsin and the Republican-led state legislature over diversity, equity and inclusion spending seems poised to end. 

The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is inviting the New York school's students to North Adams, and finding ways to ease the transition.

Students studying Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies received nearly all A's.