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
Overcoming Transportation Barriers to Improve Postsecondary Student Success
Access to reliable and affordable transportation is a key issue for #RealCollege students. Access to affordable transportation to get to and from their classes, their jobs, and their homes is a vital component of student success. Students are limited to where they can live and what they can afford because of this challenge. The Hope …
Guide to Assessing Basic Needs Insecurity in Higher Education
The Hope Center, in continuing the mission of the #RealCollege movement, wants to give institutions the tools to assess the needs of their own student populations. Our 2019 Survey Guide will help institutions to develop their own #RealCollege survey, with guidelines for recruiting students, how to structure the survey questions, and the measurement instruments that …