HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Elite Colleges Reconsidered. “The first problem on these campuses—and probably the most important one—is that the students, on the whole, aren’t terribly happy. . . . But when the Boston Globe is reporting that MIT’s suicide rate is nearly double the national average on college campuses—much like what has been taking place at Harvard (for undergraduates)—it’s probably worth considering that something has gone wrong. At Yale, a full 50 percent of undergraduates reported needing to avail themselves of mental health resources during their time as students.”

Mental health problems do seem to be pervasive at elite schools: Williams College students boycott English Department, claim it’s ‘whitewashed,’ ‘racist.’