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Survey: 23% of all undergraduate students struggle with food insecurity

University Business

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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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With roots dating back to 1891, the university has evolved to address new technologies, especially in agriculture, and prepare readily employable graduates. Dr. Leonard Williams, the director and professor of food safety and microbiology at N.C. Williams is director and professor of food safety and microbiology at N.C.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jane Close Conoley In terms of data, administration analyzes persistence rates, graduate rates, enrollment yield rates, GPA levels, the average number of credits taken per semester, financial aid needs, technology needs, and housing and food insecurity needs. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve had people tell me you could order hamburgers and the order would come in and it was chicken breast,” says Robert Nelson, chief executive officer at NACUFS, the National Association of College & University Food Services. Nearly half of students are aware of compost/food waste bins within dining programs.

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Casino project opposed By Hofstra, supported by others

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The coliseum sits just north of the Hempstead Turnpike, a major thoroughfare that also bisects the Hofstra University campus. The private university enrolls about 6,000 undergraduates, and about 41 percent of them live in university-operated housing, according to self-reported information.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At a demonstration last week, WVU graduate workers publicly signed up for food stamps and demanded pay increases and fee eliminations. Unions for Private University Grad Students Under federal law, private university employees can unionize—except, generally, tenured and tenure-track faculty, following a 1980 U.S.

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Top Winter Study Abroad Programs

AIFS Abroad

Choose from a variety of course options focusing on health and human sciences at Veritas University, the first private university in Costa Rica. Study on the university’s urban campus, equipped with modern facilities and located near the heart of the city’s vibrant nightlife scene.