Document Category: Research study (not in a journal)

Campus Food Pantries: Insights from a National Survey (2018)

• This is the first-ever national survey of campus food pantries,
with 262 participating institutions, 217 of which currently
operate pantries.
• Most campus pantries have a designated space on campus,
serve exclusively the on-campus community, and are run by
staff, students, and faculty.
• Very few campus pantries have sizable budgets, but most
employ some paid staff, often undergraduate or graduate
students, and volunteers provide additional support.
• Awareness of campus pantries may be limited because
common outreach strategies are informal, but barriers to
support are low—just 5% of campus pantries require proof
of financial need.
• The most common challenges faced by camp

Student Basic Needs: Institutional Services and Awareness, AACRAO (2020)

AACRAO partnered with The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple
University on the March 2020 survey. The Hope Center recently released the
results of the 5th annual #RealCollege survey of students’ experiences with food and housing
insecurity; it demonstrates widespread food and housing insecurity at more than 400 colleges
and universities using data from more than 330,000 students.
The results of this survey help expand the understanding of the scope of services available at
institutions of higher education to help students meet their basic needs around food and
housing. In addition, the data include estimates of percentage of students impacted by these
issues and the degree to which the issue is part of a student success agenda. The survey was
completed by 469 institutions of various sizes, types, control and location.
The data were cleaned to leave only one response per institution.

Supporting Community College Completion with a Culture of Caring: A Case Study of Amarillo College (2018)

This report is an in-depth case study of the No Excuses Poverty Initiative at Amarillo College (AC), a midsize community college in the Texas Panhandle. Nearly a decade ago, AC’s leadership initiated a reflective and intentional series of steps to help alleviate the conditions of poverty affecting their students and promote the chances those students complete their degrees. The college has received widespread press and recognition for its work. This case study is the first intensive, evidence-based examination of that initiative, its key components, and its impact on student success.

Managing to Make It: The College Trajectories of Traditional-age Students with Children (2011)

Students with children are a growing presence in higher education, but apart from being labeled “nontraditional” their prospects for degree completion are poorly understood. How does parenting while in college make students vulnerable? How does it make them stronger? To address these questions this exploratory study draws on a panel study of young, low-income Wisconsin college students that includes administrative, survey, and interview data. Findings suggest that while parenting students have divergent college pathways compared to their peers, those pathways do not always indicate disadvantage. At the same time, it is also clear that they would benefit from additional supports.