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Direct linkMariah Kornbluh; Jennfier Wilking; Susan Roll; Robin Donatello – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objectives: The relative high rates of homelessness and housing insecurity among college students has become a public health concern within the U.S. This study explores the relationship between housing instability in relation to academic and mental health outcomes. Participants: College students attending a larger public university (N = 1,416…
Descriptors: Housing, College Students, Mental Health, Student Characteristics
Stacey Havlik; Peter Wiens; Arash Ghafoori; Melissa Jacobowitz; Kelly-Jo Sheback; Hannah Hudson – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2025
While many teachers are unaware that students in their classes are experiencing homelessness, others may not know how to support students who are identified as lacking consistent housing (Wright et al., 2019). Thus, there is a critical need to better assess, understand, and enhance teachers' knowledge and attitudes toward homelessness. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Homeless People, Student Characteristics
Download full textRP Group, 2023
In spring 2023, The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (The RP Group) partnered with the CEO Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce of the Community College League of California (CCLC) to assist in survey data collection efforts and provide updated data trends regarding California Community College (CCC)…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Needs, Food, Housing
Melissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Soria, Krista M.; Friel, Parker; Kokenge, Elise; de Frausto, Mercedes Natividad; Agramon, Aaron – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to examine rates of college students' housing insecurity from September to November 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on whether there are differences in disabled and nondisabled students' housing insecurity controlling for additional demographic variables and pandemic-related experiences. Using a large…
Descriptors: College Students, Housing, Students with Disabilities, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Haskett, Mary E.; Kotter-Grühn, Dana; Majumder, Suman – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
There has been more attention to insecurity among college students for basic needs (e.g., Miles, McBeath, Brockett, & Sorenson, 2017; Morris, Smith, Davis, & Null, 2016); however, published research on student food insecurity and housing insecurity remains sparse. It is critical to understand the prevalence of these challenges because they…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Food, Housing
Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Basic needs insecurity -- including housing and food insecurity, as well as lack of access to healthcare, childcare, transportation, and other basic needs -- is a critical barrier that can undermine persistence and completion rates for postsecondary students. The gaps in covering critical costs such as housing and food are pervasive among students…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Student Needs, College Students, Program Effectiveness
Desiree Viramontes – Texas Education Research Center, 2024
Across the U.S., the number of youths who experience homelessness is increasing. The increase of youth homelessness is growing most rapidly for Black and Hispanic students and is occurring in both small and large states. In Texas, one of the states with the largest population of students experiencing homelessness, its youth homeless population is…
Descriptors: Homeless People, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Racial Differences
Matt Bryant; Ami Magisos – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Washington has made some strides in recent years toward increasing awareness and state support of students' basic needs but has lacked state and regional information to drive larger-scale policies, programs, and investments to address the attainment barriers associated with basic needs insecurity. State and regional data on unmet basic needs can…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Needs Assessment, Student Surveys, Child Care
Katharine M. Broton – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2021
A substantial share of college students experience housing insecurity and too many students leave higher education before earning a credential. Both of these experiences are more common among students from low-income families who often lack adequate resources. While prior conceptual and qualitative investigations suggest that housing insecurity is…
Descriptors: Poverty, Correlation, Homeless People, Housing
Skobba, Kim; Moorman, Diann; Meyers, David – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022
Qualitative interview data were used to explore the experiences of college students with foster care or homelessness experiences. Participants, with an average age of 21 years, included 18 female and nine male students with a history of homelessness or foster care enrolled in several independent 4-year colleges in one Southeastern state.…
Descriptors: College Students, Homeless People, Foster Care, Student Attitudes
Bender, Kimberly; Wilson, Jennifer; Adelman, Ellie; DeChants, Jonah; Rutherford, Matt – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
This study examines whether human-centered design may be a useful approach for training interdisciplinary teams to innovatively address homelessness. This case study examines the implementation of a 10-week graduate seminar in which students worked with youths experiencing homelessness to develop solutions to building social connections. The study…
Descriptors: Social Work, Instructional Design, Training, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bonner, Tiffany Bianca – ProQuest LLC, 2018
It is estimated that in the 2015-2016 academic year, there were 58,000 college students who self-identified as homeless on their Free Application for Student Aid application (FAFSA, 2015). Facing a unique set of challenges, homeless college students must find ways to navigate the higher educational system while remaining unseen on college campuses…
Descriptors: Homeless People, College Students, Barriers, Student Personnel Services
Smith, Randyl; Knechtel, Lena – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2020
To examine the phenomenon of postsecondary student homelessness, data were collected in 2014-2015 and again in 2017-2018 to discover the prevalence, to gain greater understanding of the attendant challenges, and to identify resources that can assist homeless students in their educational endeavors. Results suggest which students are most at risk…
Descriptors: Homeless People, College Students, At Risk Students, Housing Needs
Domanico, Ray – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2022
Between 1994 and 2014, New York City engaged in a historic overhaul of its publicly funded high schools. This included the opening of charter high schools (made possible by a 1999 state law) and the creation of new, smaller district high schools that would, in time, replace many of the city's large, traditional, comprehensive, and vocational high…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Urban Schools, High Schools
