Classes Are Hard; Food and Shelter are Harder
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
There are college students who find managing coursework easier than managing to bankroll food and shelter. National Public Radio did a report on a student who is in that situation. They talk to University of California-Los Angeles officials about the problem. It’s hard to identify and deal with, since students are reluctant to admit they’re in need of that kind of help, especially at places such as UCLA, where some people seem to have more money than they know what to do with. Students likely assume there isn’t anyone who can help anyway. So they quietly struggle, often dropping out. While not all students are homeless and hungry regularly, many have a hard time making their dollars last the whole term.
Have students at your institution had these issues, and what programs have been instituted to assist them? Have you found effective ways of identifying these students–or persuading them to identify themselves?
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