Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 4/5/186:48 AM

In college, it's hard to learn while you're hungry.

That's a message Temple University higher education policy professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has been getting throughout her career.

She self-identifies as a "scholar activist." She has advocated for free college, and in 2013 she founded the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, which aims to turn research about low-income students into policies that improve equitable outcomes in post-secondary education.

[For more on this story by LAUREL DALRYMPLE, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/t...ents-from-graduating]

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