A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Anthony Rusk, the Arizona student regent, to talk about how the University of Arizona addresses food insecurity and helps students meet ...

Over the past decade, rising costs of living and student housing rates have added pressure to already strained college learners, creating a new challenge for colleges and universities seeking to ...

Over 50 community college students in California currently serve as resource guides for peers in need of stable housing, food access and other basic needs. The students are part of the California ...

Many people think of college students as young adults living on campus and focused on developmental concerns, such as establishing new friends, feeling homesick, and academic pressure. Indeed, many ...

UC leaders released a statement pushing for Congress to pass the Basic Assistance for Students in College, or BASIC, Act, which will scale up funding “to help institutions of higher education meet the ...

Roy Vicerra, a first-year student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, is like other college students who balance jobs with school and life. Working in his campus food pantry, Vicerra is able to actively help ...

Over the past decade, universities and community organizations alike have increased their efforts to support students struggling to access basic needs like housing and food. But even as researchers ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A recent survey conducted by the University of Hawaii system shows alarming numbers of UH students are facing significant challenges in meeting basic needs. Those basic ...

Jennifer Founds had an eighth grade student who was always hanging out in the hallways when he was supposed to be in class at Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School (MLK) in San Francisco. She ...

This post was updated Oct. 13 at 3:00 p.m. Editor’s note: This post’s headline was updated Oct. 11 at 12:12 p.m. to reflect that the post is an editorial, not an op-ed. The first Monday of the ...

For the third straight year, student basic needs advocates are trying to convince state lawmakers to pump more funding into aid that helps students pay for housing, food, textbooks and other ...