BY HANK REICHMAN Proponents of the “completion agenda,” which strives to ensure that more students graduate from college, often fail to recognize a major reason that students fail to succeed or drop out: food insecurity and hunger. The problem has been highlighted on this blog (see, for examples, here and here) and by a growing…
BY HANK REICHMAN A fifth of the Los Angeles Community College District’s 230,000 students are homeless, and nearly two-thirds can’t afford to eat properly, according to a new survey commissioned by the system’s board of trustees and reported yesterday in the Los Angeles Times: Nearly half the L.A. community college students surveyed reported struggling with…
BY HANK REICHMAN Seven in ten University of California workers in clerical, administrative and support services struggle to put adequate food on the table, according to a new study reported in today’s Los Angeles Times. The study, conducted by Occidental College, found that 45% of 2,890 employees surveyed throughout the 10-campus UC system went hungry…
BY HANK REICHMAN Earlier this year I posted an item to this blog about “Hunger on Campus,” which began: “Even as gourmet and gluten-free choices expand at some elite college eateries, Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine Broton have published an excellent, if deeply disturbing, article on “The Hidden Hunger Problem on Campus.” For many it may…