Document Author: Hope Center Staff

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.