Food insecurity on campus Action and intervention
Book - 2020
"The chapters in this edited collection explore the ways in which college and community leaders are fighting student hunger on our nation's college campuses. The contributors describe the problem of food insecurity among students, explaining why addressing it is critical to student success. Other chapters outline a series of solutions from leaders in the field. The target audience is practitioners who can intervene in the problem on and off college campuses"--
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- Published
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2020.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xii, 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781421437729
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Food Insecurity in Higher Education
- 2. If Not Us, Who? Building National Capacity to Address Student Food Insecurity through CUFBA
- 3. The American Federation of Teachers Local 212/MATC FAST (Faculty and Students Together) Fund
- 4. Channeling Student Idealism and Energy through Campus Organizing
- 5. Student Action and Nonprofit Partnership: The Swipe Out Hunger Story
- 6. The Trampoline of Public Benefits: Using Existing Resources to Fight Food Insecurity
- 7. Transformational Change for Student Success: The California State University Basic Needs Initiative
- 8. Research as a Catalyst for Positive Systemic Change
- 9. Amarillo College: Loving Your Student from Enrollment to Graduation
- 10. Addressing Student Hunger through Policy Change: Leveraging Federal Food Benefits to Support College Completion
- Conclusion
- Index