Higher Education Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Title: SNAP Reimagined: Improving Postsecondary Education Access and Completion Source: The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) Today’s students must often navigate higher education and its associated costs while facing increased basic needs insecurity and limited need-based financial aid to close the gap.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

The 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) is the survey’s first iteration to ask students about food insecurity and homelessness, and it may have unearthed a different kind of pandemic students have long been struggling with in pursuit of postsecondary education.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2024

Few college students participate in the state’s CalFresh food program despite being eligible, according to a report published Tuesday by the University of California’s California Policy Lab. The post Report shows few California college students enroll in food assistance, despite qualifying appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2024

Hallock More prospective University of Richmond students will qualify for Richmond’s Promise to Virginia thanks to changes to the initiative, which targets first-time, first-year students who meet certain income and need-based financial aid criteria.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In an interview with Diverse, O’Keefe emphasized that while basic needs like food and housing are important, many student parents require additional academic and childcare support. She explained that parenting students often need flexibility with class schedules, childcare resources, and child-friendly spaces on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

The money will support the Women of Chapman Student Hardship Assistant Fund, which helps students with immediate and unexpected hardships, such as costs related to housing, food, transportation, technology, medical bills, and getting home during a family crisis. More than 80% of Chapman’s students receive financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Additionally, there should be sustained funding to ensure college students with the most need can access essential resources like food and housing. Additionally, Congress should require standardized terms and formatting for financial aid award letters from institutions to help students make informed postsecondary decisions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The California Student Aid Commission, which administers the state’s financial aid program, has found that student parents face housing and food insecurity at a higher rate than non-parenting peers. It would also expand financial aid access for student parents to account for the true costs of attending college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

They see if their parents have enough money to pay rent, buy food and clothes and put gas in their cars. Children of currently enrolled college students are witnesses in real time to how institutions support or fail their parents. They notice when mom or dad is absent because they’re commuting long distances to class.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

Institutions should be making efforts to meet these students where they are and provide them with basic needs like housing, food, and financial support. These students are offered financial aid, housing priority, counseling, and opportunities for career and leadership development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Social drivers of health ” (SDOH) assessments are used to identify people who could use help with food or housing, figure out who might be in a domestic violence, abuse or trafficking situation, and connect them with support. Because these factors impact quality of life, functioning, and overall wellbeing. Just last week the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

All the while, Curry has kept his focus on expanding equity for his students, with his sights specifically on food and housing insecurity, an issue that impacts many of his students. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry.

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Oregon Student Association, launched in 1975, was the only statewide student-led group advocating for causes like increasing financial aid and providing affordable housing and food to students. An advocacy group that has fought for Oregon college students at the Legislature for almost 50 years is shutting down.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture relaxed eligibility SNAP requirements for college students during the pandemic, allowing in those on financial aid with no expected family support and anyone who qualified for work-study programs, regardless of hours worked.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

On top of that, undocumented students are ineligible for any federal financial aid. Work with Admissions, Financial Aid, Counseling, Career Development, and other offices to discuss inclusive actions and support structures. No Pell Grants. No student loans. No Federal work study.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 20, 2024

The week held a number of events to provide information about other cultures and the opportunity to engage therein – everything from an International Food Fair to a photo contest from time abroad. Tuition and Financial Aid One perk about studying off-campus during a semester at Hope is the cost-effectiveness.

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Higher Education Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Read more » The post New Report Outlines How Community Colleges Can Help Reduce Students’ Food and Housing Insecurity appeared first on Higher Education Today. In CCCSE’s.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Consider an individual inquiring about financial aid qualification or food security programs on campus. Equally as important as personalization, AI can also protect a student’s anonymity. Schools can identify when a student may be at-risk and help identify any barriers they are facing early to mitigate negative outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. But there are still more expenses for basic needs, such as transportation and food.” But then in 2016 came President Donald J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2023

And financial aid packages that apply on-campus follow them as well, Hoose said. Because he received free tuition, room, and board at Goucher, he only had to pay for food and his flights, he said. “I What we find, is that gives students some predictability,” Hoose said. The classes were in French. I made a lot of local friends.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Education Department settles with five law schools over financial aid; a new report explores the role of California's Hispanic-serving community colleges; New College of Florida aims to lure students to a new Odyssey course with free books and food trucks. The following news articles ran in the past week:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

At our Black-serving institution, the maintenance and operations team, primarily men of color, encourage students to apply for financial aid or recommend grabbing a free meal before heading off campus to work or to class. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. Morales, president of CSUSB. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinx students has grown.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2024

Housing and food insecurity challenges take away students’ ability to focus, and at the root of the issue is prolonged financial struggles. One study it cited found a link between financial stress and cognitive bandwidth, which hurts students’ ability to work on difficult tasks. .”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A widespread health crisis is undermining American community colleges, with many current and potential students exhibit high rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, food insecurity, and more. The challenges predate the pandemic but were exacerbated by it.

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Great College Advice

APRIL 15, 2024

Luckily, if you’ve already been accepted to a school, you should also have been provided your financial aid award letter. If you’re living on campus, you’ll also pay the school directly for your food and housing. Pay careful attention to the type of aid they’re offering. These are your direct costs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

A new report released by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University offers guidance to state lawmakers and college leaders seeking to close the “college SNAP gap,” the number of students eligible to receive federal food benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program who do not receive them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Using traditional sources of financial aid and TFJSA funds, Alamo sent a special cohort of 10 students to CHCP’s program at no cost for tuition, laptop, books, and course materials. CHCP has a nine-month medical assistant certificate program, with the option for students to choose the timing, modality, and location of their education.

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University Business

APRIL 25, 2024

Aside from program fees and tuition, students also have to account for plane tickets, accommodations, food and expenses for any additional travel during the trip. To help offset the price, most students utilize financial aid, grants and scholarships, but more can be done to help students find and understand alternate funding options.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. Some were going without enough food to eat; others were sleeping in their cars.

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University Business

AUGUST 17, 2023

These could include financial aid, housing, food pantry, transportation, childcare and technology. Coaches assess how a student’s current employment status, family obligations, housing, food security and health impact their life and education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

This data can then be used to inform financial aid, funding of support services, and developing policies that specifically target parenting students’ needs. --> 0 % of students said that their financial aid office did not inform them that childcare expenses could be taken into account in the determination of their financial aid award, according to (..)

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

This data can then be used to inform financial aid, funding of support services, and developing policies that specifically target parenting students’ needs. --> 0 % of students said that their financial aid office did not inform them that childcare expenses could be taken into account in the determination of their financial aid award, according to (..)

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“Breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty requires meeting the most basic needs of each learner—from mental and emotional health to food and housing insecurity,” said Gilberto Becerra , associate vice chancellor for advocacy, retention, and completion at Alamo Colleges District.

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