Students' attempts and failures to procure a decent meal for themselves expose the sedentary bias embedded within food assistance programs like SNAP and the politics of profit-making, charity, and insufficiency at work in campus food environments. Looking at college student food insecurity through the...
College students facing food insecurity turn to campus food pantriesAs many as one out of every three college students in the U.S. is dealing with food insecurity, according to Temple University's The Hope Center, and at the University of California, Davis, students line up daily for the s...
"Our lowest estimate of food insecurity among college students is 19 percent—around 1 in 5 students. That's the lower bound of our estimate. That's still not great," Ellison said. "Even if there is a minority of students who are food insecure, it's something we should be concerned ab...
college students experiences food insecurity with many students on- and off-campus relying upon their campus food pantries to provide much-needed resources throughout the school year. To help provide healthy meals to more than 500,000 college students struggling with food insecurity, LG...
The majority of studies are quantitative and fail to offer insight into how students view food insecurity and what they and their universities can do about it. This study provides that perspective. Objective To examine how students experiencing food insecurity make sense of, navigate, and recommend...
“The support from the Durham College Student Association to the Food Insecurity Bursary is significant, not only in size, but in intention,” added Flynn. “It is agreat demonstration of students supporting students and reaffirms the strong sense of community at Durham College.” ...
OBJECTIVE- To assess the prevalence and determinants of food insecurity among college students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) during the COVID 19 pandemic. DESIGN- Cross-sectional study that collected online survey data from a convenience sample of college students. Setting- UNLV, ...
ObjectivesTo assess the prevalence and identify possible predictors of food insecurity among college students at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa.DesignCross-sectional survey, including the US Department of Agricultures Household Food Security Survey Module, demographic and spending variables.SettingUniversity...
Food insecurity among college students is associated with negative physical and mental health and lower academic performance and graduation rates. A recent research study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior investigates why over half of co
Food insecurity affects millions ofcollegestudents across the country. This can undermine their short- and long-term success, experts say. One resource students can benefit from is theSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Formerly known...