The Guardian explores the crisis of food insecurity affecting college students across the country, leaving nearly a third of them short-stocked and inspiring investment in more on-campus food resources like pantries. Hunger is taking a toll on younger students and their ability to learn, too, as high school sophomore Addario Miranda writes about his own challenging experience for WBUR.
The Chronicle covers the impact of an emergency aid program at Milwaukee Area Technical College, called FAST (Faculty and Students Together) Fund, offering small grants around $275 each to support students’ basic needs. “Just a few hundred bucks can spell the difference between dropping out and staying enrolled, between having an apartment and having nowhere to sleep, between hope and game over,” the program’s directors have found.