CME:1 CNE:1 CHES:1 NASW:1 CPEU:1
Leadership, Campus Collaboration, Management
After this session, attendees should be able to:
- Define non-academic barriers to student success.
- Identify community resources available.
- Describe how to obtain buy-in with senior administration.
- Discuss how to create partnership with students.
Program Abstract:
At colleges throughout the country, there is a rapidly growing awareness of the serious challenges that students face meeting basic needs. A recent study of 70 community colleges found that 56 percent of students were food insecure, and nearly half were either experiencing housing insecurity (35 percent) or homelessness (14 percent). A fall 2017 survey of California community colleges found 56.8 percent of respondents had direct contact with students experiencing basic needs insecurity multiple times per week or every day.