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College Students Face Widespread Basic Needs Insecurity, New Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When broadening the definition of basic needs to include mental health, transportation, internet access, and childcare, the percentage of students experiencing insecurity jumps to 73%, painting a stark picture of the challenges college students face while pursuing their education.

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Chapman University Receives $1 Million to Reinforce Financial Safety Net for Students

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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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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

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The growth in on-campus support for students’ housing, food, transportation, mental health, childcare, and related needs is both heartening and depressing. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. On the one hand it’s wonderful to see skilled professionals take to heart the lesson that students are humans first.

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Required to Study Abroad

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And financial aid packages that apply on-campus follow them as well, Hoose said. These programs come with their own program fee, but “normally include most or all transportation” and have scholarship supports available as well, according to Hoose. What we find, is that gives students some predictability,” Hoose said.

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

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They have access to financial aid counselors, college persistence counselors, and a life coach, and are placed into paid internships after they finish a professional development course. If they’re struggling with transportation, they’re still going to struggle with transportation for the last two years of college.”

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Community College Teams Up with For-Profit for Medical Assistant Program

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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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