Lorgia García Peña, who came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a child, was the only Black Latina scholar on the tenure track in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, her department committee unanimously recommended her for tenure. But once her case reached the administration, she was denied.

Today, García Peña is trying to find hope, while continuing her fight to dismantle inequitable academic structures. 

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As more students experience mental health issues, colleges—in response—are devoting their limited and often-shrinking budgets to hiring more counselors.

But hiring counselors is not the only way to address the growing mental health crisis. Investments in programs that tackle larger cultural and social issues on residential college campuses are key, writes Jeff Frank of St. Lawrence University in this op-ed.