Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Supports College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #RealCollege Survey Report

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Supports College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #RealCollege Survey Report

Seven in ten students at community college and six in ten students at four-year colleges experienced food insecurity, housing insecurity, and/or homelessness during the previous year, a report from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice finds. Based on a 2018 survey of nearly eighty-six thousand students at a hundred and twenty-three colleges, the report, College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #RealCollege Survey Report (53 pages PDF), found that 48 percent of respondents at two-year colleges and 42 percent of those at four-year institutions experienced food insecurity; 60 percent and 48 percent experienced some form of housing insecurity; and 18 percent and 14 percent experienced homelessness. Overall rates of food insecurity were higher among African Americans (58 percent) and Latinx (50 percent) than among white students (39 percent), while the rate of housing insecurity was highest among American Indians/Alaskan Natives (67 percent)...