Homeless and Hungry in College

Evans, Brooke A

doi:10.1080/00091383.2016.1121082

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“…Hoyt () notes that students need to be encouraged to share personal experiences with food insecurity to combat shame among peers. Evans () encourages universities to “identify and empower” students who are food insecure so they will benefit from food assistance programs. Finally, food assistance resources should be visible and accessible to the diversity of students on campus.…”

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“…Many food insecure students are faced with issues of stigma and shame daily (Bahrampour ; Evans ; Hoyt ; Kolowich ). Overwhelming feelings of shame from the inability to provide for themselves was a factor that stopped participants from seeking help from parents and other social services, such as SNAP benefits and housing subsidies.…”

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“…Most researchers call for more research on factors contributing to food insecurity, its impact on academic success, its impact on physical and mental health, as well as the experience of food insecurity. Specifically, I call for further research on (1) the prevalence and factors leading to higher numbers of African‐Americans and women being food insecure in college, (2) the relationships between medical condition and food insecurity in college, (3) the self‐perception that food insecure college students are not deserving of social services outside of the university, (4) local and state policies that potentially exclude college students with financial need from receiving support (Broton and Goldrick‐Rab ; Evans ), and (5) assessment and evaluation of local solutions to food insecurity among college students (Cady ). Cady () notes that larger assessments of food insecurity among college students could be leveraged to impact policy at the state or federal level.…”

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Understanding Food Insecurity Among College Students: Experience, motivation, and local solutions

Henry

2017

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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Food insecurity among college students is higher than the national average of 12.7 percent. Prevalence studies report a range of 14–59 percent of students being food insecure at some point during their college career. This article discusses the meaning and experience of food insecurity among students, its impact on motivation and academic success, and participant suggestions for local solutions. An ethnographic, exploratory study was conducted, including 27 semistructured interviews with food insecure students and five focus groups with food secure students. Food insecurity among students is considered faceless, has no standard image, and is often silent. Most food insecure students were faced with issues of stigma and shame daily, which prevented them from seeking assistance from parents and federal social services. Participants articulated a strong motivation to attend college. Obtaining a degree, securing a better job, and improving their living standards were priorities that outweighed hunger concerns. Alleviating student food insecurity requires multiple local solutions, which should be discreet, protective of student confidentiality, and work to alleviate stigma associated with food insecurity by raising awareness on campus.

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Understanding Food Insecurity Among College Students: Experience, motivation, and local solutions

Henry

2017

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“…Henry (2017) found that food insecurity was associated with negative self‐worth among college students. Expressing need and asking for help is not “looked on favorably” in our society, and many students are taught that expressing need is a sign of weakness (Evans 2016, 26). Students believe they will be judged poorly if they choose to go to college and choose to incur the associated costs of tuition, books, and other expenses and not be able to provide material necessities for themselves (Henry 2017).…”

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

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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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“…Our own research was designed to investigate the scope and characteristics of homelessness specifically, as it represents a qualitatively different set of circumstances than the broader category of housing insecurity. Plenty of evidence suggests that both can cause distress (e.g., Broton & Goldrick-Rab, 2016;Crutchfield et al, 2016;Evans, 2016), but worrying about how one will pay rent next month is not quite the same as worrying about where one will sleep tonight. And for university faculty and administrators, there may be a different set of appropriate responses to the student in need (i.e., proactive accessing of resources in the case of housing insecurity, versus crisis response in the event of actual homelessness).…”

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When Student Housing is a Car: In College and Homeless

Smith

Knechtel

2019

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice

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To examine the phenomenon of postsecondary student homelessness, data were collected in 2014-2015 and again in 2017-2018 to discover the prevalence, to gain greater understanding of the attendant challenges, and to identify resources that can assist homeless students in their educational endeavors. Results suggest which students are most at risk for housing insecurity. Suggestions for campus responses and resources are provided. At one large metropolitan university in the western United States, anecdotal evidence (e.g., disclosures by individual students regarding their homeless status, statements made by campus security regarding student homelessness, increase in use of the campus food bank) suggested that there was a small and mostly unseen group of students furthering their education while facing the challenges of homelessness. To investigate the scope and characteristics of this problem, university researchers developed a study aimed at discovering the prevalence of student homelessness on this urban campus, gaining greater understanding of the attendant challenges, and identifying resources that can and do assist homeless students in their educational endeavors. This research coheres with other work being conducted around the nation, contributing to a national conversation about college students whose unmet basic needs jeopardize their educational advancement. Over the past decade the pressing issues of collegiate food and housing insecurity have been gaining attention, and more research is being done to better understand what it means to succeed in higher education in the 21st century (e.g.

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Homeless and Hungry in College

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Understanding Food Insecurity Among College Students: Experience, motivation, and local solutions

Understanding Food Insecurity Among College Students: Experience, motivation, and local solutions

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

When Student Housing is a Car: In College and Homeless

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