Of 25,838 adult undergraduates at 199 institutions in 42 U.S. states:
43.2% of adult undergraduates experienced food insecurity.
60.6% experienced housing insecurity.
This is absolutely horrific. And I am seeing it personally in my own family in a painful way (see https://gofund.me/f25255ef). It feels like as hard as we are fighting, it just gets worse and worse. Madness, and cruelty.
Data from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07417136231192405. #RealCollege #HigherEd
@dgavin @jeffjarvis
I read Haidt’s piece in the Atlantic and he lost me when he said he doesn’t allow electronic devices in his classes at all.
Ok, so… what about the students with accommodations? They just don’t take your class? Explain that to Disability Services. It must be nice to be in such a position of privilege.
People like that can go and play in a microwave tbh.
It only took four years after reading @SaraGoldrickRab 's #BasicNeeds #RealCollege work and two years of a mass student-led movement to end unpaid practicums in #SocialWork (Payment4Placments)... but this #ParticipatoryActionResearch project is live!
We need to have more on-ramps to expand pathways to #STEM opportunity, across P-20 #education. This includes inclusive learning and making sure students' basic needs are met. #RealCollege #NoJargon #EdEquity
https://scholars.org/podcast/invisible-barriers-stem-education
(includes transcript, streaming, resources, link to source policy brief, and ways to download).
Full podcast episode w/link above & another clip link here: https://tinyurl.com/252mm4y9
The #RealCollege community knows Education Northwest as a key ECMC Foundation basic needs lead. Their research & evidence-based consulting is superb. I’ve been working with them for more than a decade & am excited for this next chapter. 🙏🏻
About that new Federal Strategic Plan for Ending #Homelessness
I am pissed. #RealCollege students are totally ignored.
More in my blog:
I want to elevate this reporting, and the work of my colleague @saragoldrickrab
Labor movements in HigherEd have a role to play here
#RealCollege #homelessness #HigherEducation
A New Lifeline for the Unseen: Homeless College Students https://nyti.ms/3W8UnQP
📣 Do “completion grants” like those used at Georgia State improve graduation rates?
My latest paper just out from @IESResearch indicates it’s not likely. The funds flow to students who’d likely graduate anyway.
How will you #lead next semester?
In my latest blog I share some thoughts for #college and #university #presidents who want to rebuild their #RealCollege #enrollment
https://saragoldrickrab.medium.com/if-i-were-college-president-1fae12cf3198
#RealCollege is the experience of #TodaysStudents - the majority
Community colleges and broad access public universities *are* real colleges and where most people attend college.
Nearly all college students work and/or care for family. 1 in 5 has a #kid. Many are over 25 and *all* are #adults and #humans first.
Please join me in busting stereotypes & reshaping public perception of #education beyond high school - use the #RealCollege hashtag to share and educate.
“I want my kids to go to a university, a real college, not some #CommunityCollege.”
“#College students waste their time and money partying, that’s why they are in debt.”
“If college administrators would focus on education and not making a buck college would be affordable.”
I’m sure you’ve heard all this nonsense before. It’s holding our nation back. It’s hurting students.
It’s why 7 years ago I created the #RealCollege movement.
My first #migration on here is complete.
👋🏻 #EduMasto looking forward to learning from and with you.
If we’ve only ever met on the bird app, I truly hope we can make a fresh start. Like my many plants, I’ve grown several new leaves and life looks wonderful and very different now.
My profile shows what I’m up to. Lots for #Education #college #RealCollege #Sociology #Writing #parenting #plants #inequality #publicpolicy #politics #Philadelphia #cats #dogs and more, including my ♥️ husband.
The student debt crisis was intentional.
I explain in this blog:
https://saragoldrickrab.medium.com/the-student-debt-crisis-was-intentional-a37b5ca037bb
#HigherEd #StudentDebt #Loans #Poverty #Sociology #Economics #College #RealCollege #Reagan #FinancialAid #Inequality
Let’s go #University of #California #students - it’s time to stand up for #workers and #ShutDownUC
#Universal basic income
Free public regional & community colleges
*This* is how we actualize the potential of education beyond high school in the 21st century. End vouchers & means-testing. Go forward, not towards the way we never were.
If someone could tell me how to archive all the tweets from a specific hashtag - #RealCollege - I’d be so grateful.
I already did my own.
Here in LA @foreverytable@twitter.com is an increasingly common (and delicious) sight on college campuses. Yesterday I visited @compton_college@twitter.com & CSU-LA.
But there’s a key #RealCollege difference: at Compton *everyone* gets a free meal every single day.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
A perfect Wednesday evening at @CalStateLA@twitter.com where I’m watching @Iamkeithcurry@twitter.com guest lecture ! #RealCollege
Sure is a gorgeous day to visit @compton_college@twitter.com !
#RealCollege #Real114 #EquityAvengers #NextBook #Reporting @Iamkeithcurry@twitter.com 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Finally back on the West Coast. It’s rainy but I’m feeling free in Venice today. #reporting #nextbook #RealCollege #travel #freedom
