Food

Colleges are searching for unconventional strategies to help students facing food and housing insecurity.

Living expenses should be front and center in the effort to make higher education more affordable and accessible, stakeholders say.

A new study confirms that postsecondary students are experiencing significant rates of food insecurity and homelessness—and provides the first nationally representative federal data set of its kind.

U.S. colleges and universities prepare food pantries to support students struggling with hunger and aid those who may soon lose access to pandemic-era emergency SNAP benefits.

A new report finds that many college students facing food insecurity are not taking advantage of public assistance programs that would make it easier for them to purchase food.

A new study affirms the benefits of campus food pantries but points out that most colleges still don’t have one.

Two-thirds of HBCU students surveyed in fall 2020 reported basic needs insecurity, according to a report released in tandem with a new initiative to help historically black institutions advocate for…

A merger between Swipe Out Hunger and a network of campus food pantries will greatly expand both groups’ reach.

A new report shows the pandemic’s impact on college students’ food and housing struggles, finding that 58 percent of students experienced basic needs insecurity in fall 2020.

Recognizing that their peers may not be aware of—or comfortable seeking out—food assistance benefits, college students are launching navigator programs that reduce stigma and increase access to basic necessities.