Basic Needs Center News Today

San Diego City College is getting creative, to make sure students have the resources they need.

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The Hungry WildCat Food Pantry sent out a mass email survey regarding cultural food preferences to all students and faculty on April 5 from the Basic Needs Center.  The Basic Needs Center aims to help Chico State students struggling with housing insecurity, financial crisis and food insecurity.  One way they provide food assistance is through...

Imagine that a freshman student arrives on campus for their first year and applies for Oregon State University Disability Access Services accommodations for a neurological disability. Easy, right? But two terms later, accommodations still haven’t been granted and the next step is a mystery. This is exactly what first-year political science major Jenna White experienced...

This month, get free Nuggets tickets; grab snacks in between classes; tackle debt; take advantage of the new gaming lounge; attend Women’s History Month events, free film screenings, St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and more.

There are close to 800 food pantries on college campuses across the U.S., up from only 80 a decade ago.

Free family and school supplies, food and more is offered to Napa Valley College students at the Basic Needs Center on campus.

“Students absolutely need it.” These were the words of Oregon State University student Adison Rowe, who attended the Student Fee Committee Meeting held last week, where they discussed a raise in wages for fee-funded student employees. The focus of the Jan. 25 meeting, led by Student Fee Committee Chair Matteo Paola, was to discuss 13...

The Bruin Commuter Hub and UCLA Basic Needs Center hosted an event to highlight resources for transfer and commuter students on Thursday. The “Strathmore Spotlight” event provided a tour of both the facilities and offered free lunch to UCLA students.

Editor’s note: Orange Media Network, with which The Daily Barometer is affiliated, is involved in the student fees deliberations process. Student fees are going up.  The extent of the increase is not yet determined.  Preliminary budget requests for student incidental fee-funded units were moved forward after a non-binding vote by the Student Fee Committee on...