A Private Struggle at a Private Institution: Effects of Student Hunger on Social and Academic Experiences

Allen, Cara Cliburn; Alleman, Nathan F.

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“…Henry’s (2017) seminal work shows the need for a more open‐ended approach for college students to illuminate how food insecurity affects them and the kinds of strategies they employ to address it. More recent work by Allen and Alleman (2019) and Crutchfield and Maguire (2018) further demonstrates the value of qualitative research for understanding food insecurity, particularly the role of stigma and the effects on academics.…”

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More than Money: Barriers to Food Security on a College Campus

Peterson¹,

Freidus²

2020

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Studies have shown that many college students are experiencing food insecurity and that the reasons for this are multifactorial. Students are unable to acquire adequate food to meet their needs because of limited money, time, transportation, and other factors. However, food insecurity rates are almost always assessed by using the USDA’s food security survey module, which frames the barriers to food access as purely financial by relying entirely on items that explicitly ask about a financial barrier to food security, rather than any other possible barriers. Using survey and interview data collected in collaboration with our campus food pantry and undergraduate student researchers from 2015 to 2019, we show that student food insecurity is a result of complex factors that go beyond financial limitations. We argue that the USDA measure is insufficient for fully assessing the prevalence of college student food insecurity because it presupposes a financial cause for food insecurity and then undercounts those who are food insecure for other reasons.

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More than Money: Barriers to Food Security on a College Campus

Peterson¹,

Freidus²

2020

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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“…Respondents said that lack of awareness, stigma, and low levels of financial literacy or poor money management skills were the leading causes of access challenges. Issues such as administrative burden, stigma, and shame can drive these inequities, and must be addressed (Allen & Alleman 2019;Bowers & O'Neill, 2019;Henry, 2017;King, 2017).…”

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Students are Humans First

Goldrick‐Rab¹

2021

JPSS

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The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly exacerbated the challenging situation facing many students in colleges and universities in the United States. To promote student success and address equity issues in higher education, there is an urgent need to treat students as humans first and attend to their basic needs. In this essay, I present evidence pointing to the fact that the pandemic has made student basic needs insecurity even worse. However, well designed and successfully implemented emergency aid programs and other innovative interventions with equity at the center can help address problems in student basic needs insecurity. I present successful examples in addressing student basic needs insecurity and call for sustained and bold actions.

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“…Single institution studies conducted at both community colleges and 4-year institutions indicate that food insecurity is strongly associated with decreased academic performance (Allen & Alleman, 2019; Hickey et al, 2019; Ilieva et al, 2019; Phillips et al, 2018), which has been measured as considering dropping out of classes, reducing course load, or attaining lower GPAs. These studies also find that students reporting food insecurities are more likely to experience physical, emotional, and mental health challenges, including having unhealthy diet options (Ilieva et al, 2019) and a sense of disconnection from campus communities (Allen & Alleman, 2019). Additionally, as indicated in Table 1, far less research about basic needs insecurity has employed qualitative methods.…”

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“…As the affordability of postsecondary education has declined, students increasingly lack access to stable housing (e.g., Goldrick-Rab et al, 2017, 2019; Hallett & Crutchfield, 2017; Hallett & Freas, 2018) and to healthy food (e.g., Freudenberg et al, 2019; Patton-López et al, 2014; Phillips et al, 2018; Wood & Harris, 2018). Lacking basic housing and healthy food is associated with negative effects on academic, health, and social outcomes (Allen & Alleman, 2019; Hickey et al, 2019; Ilieva et al, 2019; Phillips et al, 2018). These effects include not participating in campus events or other forms of student involvement (Allen & Alleman, 2019), reporting lower academic performance and GPAs (Hickey et al, 2019), and considering dropping out of college (Phillips et al, 2018).…”

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“…Lacking basic housing and healthy food is associated with negative effects on academic, health, and social outcomes (Allen & Alleman, 2019; Hickey et al, 2019; Ilieva et al, 2019; Phillips et al, 2018). These effects include not participating in campus events or other forms of student involvement (Allen & Alleman, 2019), reporting lower academic performance and GPAs (Hickey et al, 2019), and considering dropping out of college (Phillips et al, 2018). Research has demonstrated that, compared with white counterparts, Latinx/a/o and Black students report basic needs insecurity at a higher rate than white peers (Goldrick-Rab et al, 2019).…”

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Food and Housing Insecurity for Latinx/a/o College Students: Advancing an Intersectional Research Agenda

Durán

Núñez

2020

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

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Along with concerns about higher education’s declining affordability, attention to food and housing insecurity among postsecondary students has risen, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this manuscript, the authors review how literature has examined food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students before employing an intersectional lens to develop a research agenda to investigate food/housing insecurity for Latinx/a/o students. This agenda emphasizes interrogating how interrelated systems of power and oppression affect Latinx/a/o students’ access to basic needs.

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A Private Struggle at a Private Institution: Effects of Student Hunger on Social and Academic Experiences

Cited by 34 publications

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More than Money: Barriers to Food Security on a College Campus

More than Money: Barriers to Food Security on a College Campus

Students are Humans First

Food and Housing Insecurity for Latinx/a/o College Students: Advancing an Intersectional Research Agenda

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