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ERIC Number: EJ1247569
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0363-4523
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When Your Students Are Hungry and Homeless: The Crucial Role of Faculty. Wicked Problems Forum: Student Precarity in Higher Education
Wright, Sarah; Haskett, Mary E.; Anderson, Jacqulea
Communication Education, v69 n2 p260-267 2020
National studies and research on the authors' own campus confirms that many college students are sacrificing their health and safety to earn a degree. Furthermore, the challenges experienced by under-resourced college students can prevent them from obtaining a quality educational experience, hinder their progress toward graduation, and contribute to drop out. Faculty members, have the capacity move the needle on how their campus community responds to students who do not have access to basic needs. This group of authors, having first-hand experiences both professionally and personally with student hunger, food insecurity, and homelessness, come together in this article to provide a triangulated view of food and housing insecurity at their institution. They share strategies for investigating and addressing these problems with the goal of informing and motivating faculty on other campuses to become involved in this timely and critical challenge. Specific actions faculty can take, individually and collectively, to demonstrate that they care about this issue are provided.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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