Colleges and suicide

marite
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:27:32 +0000

There is an interesting article in today’s New York Times about how colleges are trying to cope with suicide. It mentions, inter alia, that the rate of suicide among college students (7.3 per 100,000) is half of what it is among non- college students. Still, it represents 1,100 suicides a year for the entire college population. Another interesting statistic: of the 16 students who have committed suicide at Cornell since 1996, 9 were of Asian descent.

“Worried Colleges STep Up Their Efforst Over Suicide,” NYT, Dec. 3, 2004.