BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Tri Counties Bank is hosting a basic needs drive to stock the shelves at Renegade Nexus. 60% of college students struggle to pay for food. Bakersfield College aims to ...

ASL 3 student final project performances at Central Lakes College.

About three in five college students experienced some level of basic needs insecurity during the 2024 calendar year, according to survey data from Trellis Strategies. Over half (58 percent) of ...

Two Democratic Californian legislators reintroduced a bill designed to target the basic needs crisis among students in higher education Sept. 18. The Basic Assistance for Students in College Act – ...

UC leaders released a statement pushing for Congress to pass the Basic Assistance for Students in College, or BASIC, Act, which will scale up funding “to help institutions of higher education meet the ...

An estimated 59 percent of all college students have experienced some form of housing or food insecurity in the past year, according to 2024 data from the Hope Center at Temple University. Closer to ...

Since 2021, Fresno City College has received millions of dollars in state funds to provide basic resources — such as food, housing, transportation and health care — to its neediest students. But, ...

Higher education advocates hope to convince Oregon lawmakers to find $5 million to keep paying for campus benefits navigators who in the last three years have helped nearly 40,000 college students ...

For the third straight year, student basic needs advocates are trying to convince state lawmakers to pump more funding into aid that helps students pay for housing, food, textbooks and other ...