Community College Food Student Housing 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2025
This moment inspired Joshua Jackson and Dayshawn Louden, then student leaders at Compton College, to begin campaigning and advocating for student housing and increased basic needs on campus. Their next step was to identify Compton College students who identified as homeless.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. While visiting the kitchen, then Dean of Student Services Dr. In the summertime, it can be well over 125 degrees—[living out of your car] is not sustainable.”
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Sorrell Sorrell said that the grant will launch a campus housing initiative that will eventually be accompanied by a larger mixed-use development that includes student and family housing, retail and restaurant spaces, parks, outdoor meeting areas, and classroom facilities—all designed to serve both the campus and the surrounding community.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. Enrollment for Black learners in community colleges is not down because of COVID or because the Black population is shrinking (in fact, it has increased by 2.5
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry. This is it.”
Confessions of a Community College Dean
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Rising costs of living and increasing student housing rates have exacerbated college retention efforts as campus leaders look to tackle a rising concern: basic needs insecurity.
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