"A recent Urban Institute study found that from 2011 to 2015, one in five students attending a two-year college lived in a food-insecure household. A study from the Wisconsin Hope Lab found that in 2016, 14 percent of community college students had been homeless at some point. At LaGuardia Community College in New York, where I am president, 77 percent of students live in households making less than $25,000 per year."--Gail O. Mellow, President of LaGuardia Community College
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/opinion/community-college-misconception.html
I know that my university has both homeless and food-insecure students. We also have a food and toiletry pantry (because it's also hard to concentrate on your studies if you're out of toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, or -- perhaps especially -- tampons/sanitary napkins, all of which are expensive). But I doubt that's enough.
ReplyDeleteAnd all the while, the "food court" in the student center is getting fancier and fancier (and the choices more and more expensive). There is at least a bank of microwaves available for students to reheat food they've brought with them, but still, there's a divide.