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Item Pushing Boundaries: Young People’s Experiences Developing and Expressing Intersecting Identities(2021-07) Hyson, AudreyWhile discussion of intersectional identities has entered popular media, very few scholarly works on young peoples’ experiences with gender, sexual, and racial identities have been published in the past decade (Bettie, 2014; Lee, 2009; Pascoe, 2007). This dissertation responds to that gap and presents findings from a two-part qualitative study about identities and education. This dissertation focuses on the ways young people navigate boundaries that family members and classmates maintain around racial, gender, and sexual identities. The data discussed and presented in this dissertation comes mainly from nine life story interviews (see Atkinson, 1998) with adults from the Lindy Hop community who were asked to think back on how their families, educational experiences, friends, and social media impacted their identity formation. Additional data was collected from one student participant who shared her stories through a social media diary, a photovoice activity, and two rounds of interviews. The interviews reveal that young people encounter boundaries around their gender, sexual, and racial identity possibilities maintained by family members, community members, or classmates. The participants navigated these boundaries by pushing against them, moving beyond them, or strategically silencing aspects of their identities in different spaces. The findings suggest that young people make conscious decisions about how to engage with identity possibilities and enact agency in ways that are reflective of boundaries and privileges around their intersecting identities. The stories of these ten participants help to fill a gap in research on how young people engage with identity possibilities enacted by family, schooling, and social media as they construct their racial, gender, and sexual identities.Item Undergraduate and Graduate Students’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic(SERU Consortium, University of California - Berkeley and University of Minnesota., 2020-07) Chrikov, Igor; Soria, Krista M.; Horgos, Bonnie; Jones-White, DanielThe COVID-19 pandemic has looming negative impacts on mental health of undergraduate and graduate students at research universities, according to the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium survey of 30,725 undergraduate students and 15,346 graduate and professional students conducted in May-July 2020 at nine public research universities. Based on PHQ-2 and GAD-2 screening tools, 35% of undergraduates and 32% of graduate and professional students screened positive for major depressive disorder, while 39% of undergraduate and graduate and professional students screened positive for generalized anxiety disorder. Major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder rates are more pronounced among low-income students; students of color; women and non-binary students; transgender students; gay or lesbian, bisexual, queer, questioning, asexual, and pansexual students; and, students who are caregivers. The prevalence of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder is higher among the undergraduate and graduate students who did not adapt well to remote instruction. Furthermore, the pandemic has led to increases in students’ mental health disorders compared to previous years. In fact, the prevalence of major depressive disorder among graduate and professional students is two times higher in 2020 compared to 2019 and the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder is 1.5 times higher than in 2019.Item Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students’ Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic(SERU Consortium, University of California - Berkeley and University of Minnesota., 2020-08) Soria, Krista M.; Horgos, Bonnie; Jones-White, Daniel; Chrikov, IgorOne in five undergraduates (22%) and graduate and professional students (19%) enrolled at large public research universities experienced food insecurity, according to the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium survey of 31,687 undergraduate students at nine universities and 16,453 graduate and professional students from ten universities during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from the survey suggest that undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds experienced significantly higher rates of food insecurity compared to their peers. Specifically Black, Hispanic and Latinx, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and international students; low-income, poor, or working-class students; students who are caregivers to adults during the pandemic; first-generation students; and students who are transgender, nonbinary, bisexual, pansexual, or queer all experienced significantly higher rates of food insecurity during the pandemic compared to their peers. As colleges and universities prepare for the upcoming fall 2020 semester, we encourage them to provide resources to alleviate students’ food insecurity, offer students greater access to nutritious and affordable food, and expand food security efforts given that the pandemic is likely to disrupt students’ traditional means of accessing food on campus. We encourage institutional leaders to provide targeted outreach efforts to the students who are most likely to experience food insecurity and consider novel ways of providing students with access to free or discounted meals, even if institutions are offering primarily online classes.