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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Like many of our students, I was a first gen, low-income college student who had periods of housing, food, and transportation insecurity. I remember working food service jobs so it would be easier to eat, needing to move constantly as rent got too high, and scrounging to afford my bus pass.

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How can America Encourage College Dropouts to Complete their Degrees

Edu Alliance Journal

I thought in early 1969 when I left the university, I didn’t have the academic ability to get a degree and my university advisor certainly was not supportive and suggested I should go sign up for military service that day. US Labor Market. In the United States, for instance, customer service and food service jobs could fall by 4.3

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“I’ve had people tell me you could order hamburgers and the order would come in and it was chicken breast,” says Robert Nelson, chief executive officer at NACUFS, the National Association of College & University Food Services. “They should celebrate it and market that they’re engaging in it.

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