OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT
Upcoming Events
NASPA Annual Meeting: March 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Starving the Dream? Administrating Food Needs at Selective Colleges and Universities
General Interest Session, Monday, March 17 at 9:40 am:
In this session the authors of the book Starving the Dream: Student Hunger and the Hidden Costs of Campus Affluence will share insights about administrative responses to student basic needs that promote and undermine students' success navigation efforts at selective universities. Based on sixty interviews across three campuses, presenters will highlight the effects of administrators' orientation to efficiency and student care and the tensions that result. Session participants will learn from other attendees as we workshop alternatives together.
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American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: April 23-27, 2025 in Denver, Colorado
Managing Food Insecurity: A Typology of Multiply-Marginalized Student Navigational Strategies
Round Table Session, Thursday, April 24 at 3:35 to 5:05pm,
The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4
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Struggling to pay for food in college (i.e., food insecurity) can constrain social and academic opportunity for multiply-marginalized students at four-year universities. However, an asset-based approach shifts the focus away from limitations only and toward students’ own pursuit of aims, or “cares,” despite or even through personal and structural constraints. In this qualitative study of 35 multiply-marginalized food insecure students at three selective, normatively affluent universities, we focus on the ways participants managed their resource limitations to pursue their educational and professional priorities. The result is the Campus Navigation Strategies Typology, or categories that expose patterns in how students prioritize their time and resources given their opportunities and constraints.
Let’s Work Together
Starving the Dream tells the story of food struggle in prestige-oriented universities, challenging campus leaders, student affairs practitioners, faculty, policymakers, and researchers alike to make the opportunities of these resource-rich campuses available to all students.
We want to join you in this important work!
Contact StarvingTheDream@gmail.com to partner in these ways and more:
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Tailored campus consulting on collegiate food insecurity and basic needs resource assessments and best practices.
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Speaking in university and non-university settings, including lectures, workshops, and trainings.
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Joining classroom discussions on basic needs research and practice in higher education and student affairs.
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The sky is the limit - propose a collaboration!