University of Arizona Assessments
The following are relevant assessments and reports:
- ABOR Student Food and Housing Insecurity Report - 2024
- UA Basic Needs Symposium Report and Recommendations - Summer 2023
- UArizona Student Basic Needs Focus Group Report - Spring 2022
- Feedback from Community Champion Presentations - Spring 2022
- ABOR Student Food and Housing Insecurity Work Group Report - 2021
- UArizona Student Basic Needs Survey Summary - Spring 2021
Select National Data & Scholarly Research
The following are selected resources to aid in better understanding the scope and impact of basic needs insecurity among college students in the United States:
Broton, K., & Goldrick-Rab, S. (2016). The dark side of college (un)affordability: Food and housing insecurity in higher education. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 48(1),16-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2016.1121081
Broton, K., & Cady, C.L. (Eds.). (2020). Food insecurity on campus: Action and intervention. John Hopkins University Press.
Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. (2021). The Hope Center Survey 2021: Basic needs insecurity during the ongoing pandemic. https://hope.temple.edu/sites/hope/files/media/document/HopeSurveyReport2021.pdf
Leung, C. W., Farooqui, S., Wolfson, J. A., & Cohen, A. J. (2020). Understanding the cumulative burden of basic needs insecurities: associations with health and academic achievement among college students. American Journal of Health Promotion, 34(2), 275-278. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890117120946210
Meza, A., Altman, E., Martinez, S., & Leung, C. W. (2019). “It’s a feeling that one is not worth food”: A qualitative study exploring the psychosocial experience and academic consequences of food insecurity among college students. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 119(10), 1713-1721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2018.09.006
Nazmi, A., Martinez, S., Byrd, A., Robinson, D., Bianco, S., Maguire, J., ... & Ritchie, L. (2019). A systematic review of food insecurity among US students in higher education. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 14(5), 725-740. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2018.1484316
United States Government Accountability Office. (2024). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Estimated eligibility and receipt among food insecure college students (GAO-24-107074). https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-107074.pdf
United States Government Accountability Office. (2018). Food insecurity: Better information could help eligible college students access federal food assistance benefits (GAO-19-95). Retrieved from https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696254.pdf
Weaver, R.R., Vaughn, N.A. Hendricks, S.P., McPherson-Myers, P.E., Jia, Q., Willis, S.L., & Rescigno, K.P. (2019). University student food insecurity and academic performance. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1600522
Willis, D. (2019). Feeding the student body: Unequal food insecurity among college students. American Journal of Health Education, 50(3), 167-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/19325037.2019.1590261