Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The "Student Basic Needs Survey Report," which analyzed responses from over 74,000 students across 91 colleges in 16 states, reveals alarming rates of food insecurity, housing instability, and mental health challenges among today's college students. The survey reveals significant disparities among different student populations.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2025
Under Currys leadership, their efforts grew into a larger task force committed to addressing housing, food, and basic needs for the student body. Its about the absence of opportunity, the absence of safety, the absence of stability, says Louden. Their next step was to identify Compton College students who identified as homeless.
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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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 9, 2024
Dr. Leonard Williams, the director and professor of food safety and microbiology at N.C. Citing the shortage of STEM graduates across the nation, she says these students are filling positions of impact, including national security. Williams is director and professor of food safety and microbiology at N.C.
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 1, 2024
In this century, doctors begun going beyond those physical measures and asking patients to answer another set of questions which get at the safety and security of their current lives. Government Accountability Office issued its second report about the high rates of food insecurity among college students, and last year the U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 3, 2024
They are also more likely to struggle with food and housing security and more likely to take on loans. This is about communities, about the economy, and about the safety and health and wealth of our nation. These students are also more likely to have higher GPAs, while being more likely to face educational disruption.
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