A Trellis Strategies report found more than half of college students report feeling lonely, reinforcing concerns about mental health and the need for peer‑to‑peer and community interventions on campus. Institutions are being pushed to scale social supports and redesign student engagement to address pervasive isolation. At the same time, measles outbreaks have spread to multiple campuses, exposing vulnerabilities in vaccination coverage and campus public‑health infrastructure. The combination of rising loneliness and infectious‑disease risk intensifies institutional burdens on counseling, health services and crisis communication teams.