Under Pressure
Inside the College Mental Health Crisis
In collaboration with APM Reports, Call to Mind presents “Under Pressure: The College Mental Health Crisis,” an audio documentary which digs deep into the complex issues facing colleges and their students when it comes to mental health care.
With increasing urgency, students and parents are asking colleges for more mental health support. “Under Pressure” explores college students’ mental health, what services colleges are and aren’t providing, and what role mental health care should have in our education system.
Call to Mind correspondent Alisa Roth and APM Reports’ Sasha Aslanian talk to students across the country, from elite four-year universities to community colleges, who haven’t gotten the mental health care they need from their schools.
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In our collaborations with APM Reports, Call to Mind teams up with APM’s investigative reporting unit to explore important and complicated questions.
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Alisa Roth is Call to Mind’s mental health correspondent. A 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, she is the author of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness (Basic Books, updated edition, 2020). Her work has appeared in many outlets, including NPR, The World, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books.
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Sasha Aslanian returned to APM Reports in 2015 to cover human trafficking. Prior to that she spent seven years reporting for MPR News covering beats such as immigration and Minnesota's multi-year battle over same-sex marriage. From 2000 to 2008, she produced documentaries for American RadioWorks. Her work has been recognized with a George Foster Peabody Award and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award among others. She is a graduate of Grinnell College.
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“Under Pressure” is available for broadcast nationally. Contact your local radio station for more information about when you can listen to “Under Pressure” on the air.