Helping the Hungry: Campus Food Pantries Can Be Lifesavers for Struggling Students. But Are Colleges and Universities Doing Enough?

Autor/in	Budd, Ken
Titel	Helping the Hungry: Campus Food Pantries Can Be Lifesavers for Struggling Students. But Are Colleges and Universities Doing Enough?
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 107 (2021) 1 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Hunger; Food; Student Personnel Services; Student Needs; At Risk Students; Community Colleges; Campuses; COVID-19; Pandemics; Emergency Programs; College Students; Massachusetts; Colorado (Boulder); Arkansas; New York (New York); Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Community college; Community College; Hilfsprogramm; Collegestudent; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Food pantries are becoming as ubiquitous on campuses as classrooms and quads. More than seven hundred campus food banks are members of the College and University Food Bank Alliance, and a NASPA survey of roughly five hundred campuses found that half offer resources to address food insecurity. This article discusses how the need for food pantries' services has steadily grown--and how COVID-19 has made it worse. In a survey of more than thirty-eight thousand students in twenty-six states conducted from mid-April 2020 to mid-May 2020 by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 44 percent of students at two-year institutions reported food insecurity, up from 42 percent before the pandemic. At four-year institutions, the rate was 38 percent, up from 33 percent. Nearly six out of every ten students were enduring basic needs insecurity, which includes necessities such as housing, health care, and transportation. Food insecurity is often one piece of a larger financial and personal puzzle, which is why institutions such as St. John's University, a private Catholic university in New York, take a broad approach to the problem, focusing more on emergency aid and long-term solutions. The article includes tips for creating or enhancing a campus food pantry. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01