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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Hope Center Co-Hosts Congressional Briefing on Student Parents
Today the Hope Center is in Washington DC co-hosting a Congressional briefing about the importance of supporting the 4.3 million undergraduate students raising children. The message in the U.S. Government Accountability Office‘s new report is clear, “More Information Could Help Student Parents Access Additional Federal Student Aid.” The report finds: Only 3,320 students at 85 …
2018 #RealCollege Survey Report: Denver
The #RealCollege survey is the nation’s largest annual assessment of basic needs security among college students. This report describes the results of the #RealCollege survey administered in the fall of 2018 at four institutions throughout Denver. Among the 3,011 respondents we found: 40% experienced food insecurity in the prior 30 days 55% experienced housing insecurity in the previous year …