food insecurity Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/food-insecurity/ A Blog by ACE Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:57:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png food insecurity Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/food-insecurity/ 32 32 Using SNAP Benefits to Reduce Student Food Insecurity and Improve College Completion https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/04/03/using-snap-benefits-to-reduce-student-food-insecurity-and-improve-college-completion/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:57:37 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17923 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. In a new brief, The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) suggests policy recommendations and changes ...

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]]> New Report Outlines How Community Colleges Can Help Reduce Students’ Food and Housing Insecurity https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/10/28/new-report-details-how-community-colleges-can-help-reduce-students-food-and-housing-insecurity/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:04:10 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17859 Title: Mission Critical: The Role of Community Colleges in Meeting Students’ Basic Needs Source: Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) Community colleges serve as an important access point to higher education; however, according to a new report, community colleges must also recognize and address students’ holistic needs to make education truly attainable. In CCCSE’s fall 2021 survey of 82,424 community ...

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]]> One in Five Students Experienced Food Insecurity During COVID-19 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/09/14/one-five-students-experienced-food-insecurity-covid-19/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:29:15 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16963 Title: Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students’ Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Authors: Krista M. Soria, Bonnie Horgos, Daniel Jones-White, and Igor Chirikov Source: Student Experience in the Research University Consortium The Student Experience in the Research University Consortium surveyed college students enrolled in large public research universities on their experiences with food insecurity from May through mid-July 2020. The report ...

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]]> ACE2019: An Examination of Food Insecurity in Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/14/ace2019-examination-food-insecurity-higher-education/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:09:29 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14726 Panelists from Hope Center for College, Harvard University, and Bon Appetit Management Company asked audience members at the ACE2019 session “When Students Are Hungry: An Examination of Food Insecurity in Higher Education” to consider how the problem plays out on their campus. Christine Baker-Smith, director of research at Hope Center for College at Temple University (PA), shared the startling statistic that ...

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]]> KSU Center Provides Resources for Homeless, Food Insecure, and Foster Care Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/02/04/ksu-center-provides-resources-homeless-food-insecure-foster-care-students/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:17:56 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14340 Problems affording housing and food as well as lack of family support can be disruptive to a college student’s education. That is why Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Georgia created the Campus Awareness, Resource & Empowerment (CARE) Services Center to offer support for students dealing with issues like homelessness, food insecurity, and experience in the foster care system. In 2006, a ...

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]]> GAO Report Highlights Food Insecurity Among College Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/01/11/gao-releases-report-food-insecurity-among-college-students/ Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:06:53 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14272 Title: Food Insecurity: Better Information Could Help Eligible College Students Access Federal Food Assistance Benefits Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office In response to a 2017 request from Senate Democrats at the behest of Bunker Hill Community College (MA) President Pam Eddinger and instructor Wick Sloane, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched a study to better understand food insecurity among college ...

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]]> Study: Food Insecurity a Major Concern for Community College Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/08/01/study-food-insecurity-major-concern-community-college-students/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:24:31 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=10358 Report: Assessing Food Insecurity on Campus Source: The Urban Institute What is more important: food or paying the rent? Unfortunately, that is a question many college and university students must ask themselves on a daily basis, especially those attending a two-year college. A report released this week by The Urban Institute finds that the food insecurity rate is 13.3 percent for households ...

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]]> Wisconsin HOPE Lab Announces New Survey on Food and Housing Insecurity https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/04/07/wisconsin-hope-lab-announces-new-survey-food-housing-insecurity/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:14:29 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=8912 Title: Wisconsin HOPE Lab Survey on Food and Housing Insecurity Author: Sara Goldrick-Rab The Wisconsin HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced a call for participants for its recent study examining food and housing insecurity among students enrolled in postsecondary education. This is the second iteration of their groundbreaking survey administered to 70 community colleges around the United States. ...

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]]> Hungry and Homeless in College: Results from a National Study of Basic Needs Insecurity in Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/03/17/hungry-homeless-college-results-national-study-basic-needs-insecurity-higher-education/ Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:43:17 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=8680 Title: Hungry and Homeless in College: Results from a National Study of Basic Needs Insecurity in Higher Education Author: Sara Goldrick-Rab, Jed Richardson, and Anthony Hernandez Source: Wisconsin HOPE Lab Two out of every three community college students experiences food insecurity, meaning “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or the ability to acquire such foods in a ...

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]]> Fighting Food Insecurity on Campus https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/06/29/fighting-food-insecurity-on-campus/ Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:47:44 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3355 Christopher Nellum looks at what we can do about the problem, which has grown significantly in the years since the Great Recession. College and university administrators and leaders around the country increasingly are realizing that undergraduate students are among the millions of Americans who experience food insecurity, or a lack of resources to obtain nutritional food. The numbers are striking. Feeding ...

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