The affordability crisis goes beyond the cost of tuition, with students’ most basic needs, like food and housing, unmet. Solutions to help students escape conditions of poverty and complete their degrees.
– Sara Goldrick-Rab, Professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology, Temple University
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Alleviating Poverty and Promoting College Attainment in Philadelphia
Poverty remains one of the most serious challenges plaguing Philadelphia, an otherwise ambitious and thriving city on an upward trajectory. More than one in four residents live in poverty, the highest rate among the nation’s 10 largest cities. Almost half of those individuals live in deep poverty. And the situation facing our children is even …
College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #RealCollege Survey Report
The #RealCollege survey is the nation’s largest annual assessment of basic needs security among college students. The survey, created by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice (Hope Center), specifically evaluates access to affordable food and housing. This report describes the results of the #RealCollege survey administered in the fall of 2018 at 123 …