April 24, 2009

Campus Counseling Centers React to Recession-Related Stress Among Students

By STEVEN BUSHONG

Rebecca Jordan has been a good student, achieving nearly a B average and working as an undergraduate student assistant in the English department at Troy University. But lately, she says, "family drama" has been keeping her up at night, sapping her motivation, and making class seem like a chore better avoided.

The drama is economic. In January her father was laid off from his job as an administrator at Virginia College Online, based in Birmingham, Ala. In February a bank foreclosed on

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