Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But too many find that college is no escape from the struggle against poverty and food insecurity. However, a staggering 85 percent of Latino students said they struggle with food insecurity. We must invest in supporting these students to ensure that higher education can deliver on its promise.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

The National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS) has released its “ Campus Dining: 2030 and Beyond ” report, adding that it reveals the values of a new generation of students and non-student staff and management. By serving so much more than food, we are empowering the next generation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) New Beginning for Tribal Students (NBTS) program was created to help increase the retention and graduation rate of Tribal students attending 1994, 1862, and 1890 land-grant universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Over the last decade, the number of food pantries on campuses has swelled from 80 to around 800. Now, new data from the 2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study has provided the first nationally representative picture: more than one in five undergraduates experience food insecurity. Their estimates are wrong,” said Goldrick-Rab.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

One of the most important factors students think about when deciding which colleges to apply to: where is the best college food? A campus visit priority: test for the best college food Do you plan to eat in a campus dining hall during your college visit? Maybe you should! And breakfast? Forget about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Austin Community College (ACC) will offer free food, housing services, and family support as part of an effort to strengthen student services, KXAN reported. When students are kind of engaged outside of school, outside of the academic realm, they tend to succeed more,” said Vanessa Barrientos, manager of the ACC Student Care Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We are proud to support Paul Quinn College in their mission to create a transformative and sustainable campus environment that addresses critical needs like housing, transportation, and food security for students,” said Kelley Cornish, CEO and President, T.D. Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College. “We Dr. Michael J. Jakes Foundation.

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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. The legislative branch has yet to detail a plan to supplement the school funding drying up from pandemic relief programs. The executive branch is straining to keep its promises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are needs with food, housing, mental health support and counseling. … “The Higher Education Act is well overdue for amendment,” said Dr. Kayla C. Elliott, director of workforce policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and one of the authors of the report. The last time it was amended was in 2008. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Last year, the National Library of Medicine released a study on the impact of human consumption of ultra-processed foods. Controlling our minds is where we have the most power to change our lives, and we are the only ones who can do it. Be intentional about what you consume. At the top of 2025, the U.S. You deserve to live a quality life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

We both are dedicated advocates for all people who live in poverty, food deserts, and other deeply challenging situations. HAIRSTON: Growing up in a home that included my mother and one brother, I learned many life lessons. Watching my mother continuously work two and sometimes three jobs was normal life for me. 5. Investing.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2025

Living expenses, such as housing and food, still can leave aspiring students with a surprising price tag. A pair of reports from the College Board found that the cost of housing rose by 14% more than inflation between 2010 and 2020, and that room and board and food at a public four-year college now costs more than tuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. This was the 5th clinic held so far in total, nearly 500 individuals have benefitted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

I can grow food. Beatty, Florida State University; Dr. Jennifer L. Bloom, Florida Atlantic University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Focus on the work that truly matters to you, approach it with care, and remain humbleeverything else will fall into Dr. Jesse Ford place. Youre going back to school to get a masters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

As an undergraduate at Tulane, Henry experienced firsthand the town-gown divide in New Orleans, describing the university as a place that haunted New Orleans, but was not really there for most New Orleanians except for the ability to work there as a custodian or as someone in food service.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Black Male Initiative (BMI) officially began in 2005, when the New York City Council approved funding for BMI throughout the whole of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, 25 institutions in total. Innovation And Growth The seeds of BMI were first planted in 2000 at Medgar Evers College, a CUNY institution in central Brooklyn.

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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. Indeed, in several states those staff are required and supported by legislatures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Students experiencing basic needs insecurity are struggling to access reliable housing, nutritious food, or both. Food-insecure students are more likely to fail or drop out of education, according to another 2021 UNM study. It is now connected to running water and has refrigerators for more food options.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this 30-minute Ed Talk, learn how food impacts key staff initiatives beyond the dining hall and how Quinsigamond Community College provides its staff with the catered meetings and events they crave without overhauling their current food service system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The legislators said that the legislation would combat the basic needs crisis by allocating funding to help students access nutritious food, safe and secure housing, mental and physical health care, high-quality and affordable childcare, technology, transportation, personal hygiene, and other necessities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Students’ connection with CHAP helped them to more easily access other supports, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), two federal programs that address food insecurity. It might show that it’s not food people need, it’s housing.” Harrell II, president of TCC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

The needs start with physiological essentials such as food, water, shelter, clothing, and sleep. Unfortunately, many campuses fall short in evaluating whether their food options appropriately cater to diverse ethnic and cultural dietary needs. Institutions need to offer holistic services that assist diverse student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture plans to invest nearly $1 million in a new project at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to help advance environmental justice in agriculture through the school’s Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI.)

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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. The basics are very appealing. It wasn’t always like this historically.

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University Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Food insecurity among college students is a more significant issue than one might imagine. Seeing a lack of easily accessible food in its own state, The Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation outlined several measures institutions can take to curb hunger on campus.

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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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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A warm and safe place to live with hot food on the table is non-negotiable. Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. Winter can be harsh, challenging, draining, and even depressing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Over the last decade there’s been terrific work done to put basic needs and holistic student supports on the map, such that now most colleges and universities recognize the issue, have a food pantry, and some even have basic needs navigators and centers,” said Goldrick-Rab.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The City University of New York (CUNY) has announced the launch of CUNY CARES , a three-year pilot program designed to boost academic success by using an integrated approach to help students access health care, mental health treatment, food and housing assistance.

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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. It was a devastating blow to the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Partnership With Native Americans PWNA collaborates with Tribal programs to address immediate relief and long-term solutions such as emergency preparedness, food security, and education. Synchrony first engaged PWNA during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, supporting provisions of food and other essentials to tribes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 2023 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), 23% of undergraduate college students and 12% of graduate students are experiencing food insecurity, accounting for more than 4 million students. Strategic plans tend to range in lifespan from three to five years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s been really cool to see how TICAS acknowledges how so many things are related — affordability, basic needs, addressing food insecurity and not just loans,” said Fernandez. Can students get childcare, or food? Can they have healthcare? Because you can’t have student success without those things.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

According to her philanthropy website, Yield Giving, Scott has gifted more than $16 billion to approximately 1,960 nonprofit groups. Many reported that this trust significantly increased the impact of the gift. There is nothing new about amplifying gifts by yielding control,” she continued.

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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. If one thing’s certain these days, it’s that we are constantly changing with the world around us.

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AIFS Abroad

DECEMBER 30, 2024

She goes on to discuss how she adjusted to her hands-on classes in Florence : The biggest adjustment was the hands-on nature of two of my classes, Food Culture in Italy and Palaces and Villas. Abby chose Florence because its a great destination to learn about sustainability practices and Italian culture.

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