Ep 4: The pandemic made everything harder
Episode 4 of The Enduring Gap, a limited series exploring why more Latinos don't have college degrees in San Antonio.
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Episode 4 of The Enduring Gap, a limited series exploring why more Latinos don't have college degrees in San Antonio.
Almost half of the students enrolled in San Antonio’s public institutions of higher education worried about running out of food during the pandemic, according to a survey TPR sent to college students during the Spring 2021 semester.
Volunteers at San Antonio College load bags of food into a student's trunk. Long Beach City College in California in 2019 provided hot breakfasts for about 1,800 students across 10 separate events. This past fall, on Nov. 24, the college provided a food pickup service to about 390 students (helping about 1,820 household members total) in one day. San Antonio College, part of the Alamo Colleges District in Texas, provided nearly 89,000 pounds of food for 633 students (getting food for a total of 3,455 individuals) from September through December in 2020. Calhoun Community College in Alabama d...