Document Category: Webinar

What Now? Practitioners and Researchers Discuss New Federal Data on College Students’ Basic Needs (2023)

In 2020 the National Center for Education Statistics asked students, for the very first time, if they had enough to eat and a safe place to sleep. The just-released data show that students across the nation are enduring food and housing insecurity. What can we learn from this new information about how to help students, and what should we do now? Watch this webinar where researchers and leaders from diverse institutions of higher education discuss this pressing challenge.

Basic Needs for All Students: American Council for Education Webinar (2020)

On June 11, Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, leader of the #RealCollege movement and best known for her innovative research on food and housing insecurity in higher education, will discuss the importance of basic needs and emergency aid for college and university students. Her recent report revealed that 68% of parenting students were housing insecure in the previous year, compared to 42% of students were housing insecure in the previous year. The pandemic has exasperated the crisis around basic needs.

In an unprecedented move, the federal government granted higher ed with nearly $7B through the CARES Act to be used elusively for emergency aid for their students. Learn more about why granting emergency aid has always been important but is most especially critical today, along with strategies for how to assess basic needs and disburse funds. Dr. Goldrick-Rab will share why using an equity lens (to support all students, but especially DACA, students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, and student parents) has a clear ROI for higher ed.