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A Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2024 State of Higher Education Study conducted in the fall of last year found that 35% of 14,032 current and prospective students polled reported that they thought about leaving their program in the past six months. Of those students, 54% reported emotional stress and 43% reported mental health as the reason they wanted to drop out. Students getting their bachelor's degree were more likely to say they were pausing their studies because of emotional stress (67%) or personal mental health reasons (56%).(NewsNation) — More than one-third of........