Thursday, November 7, 2024
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

A Holistic, University-wide Approach to Address Basic Need Access & Improve Persistence

Many college students struggle to maintain access to basic needs such as food, housing, technology, and transportation at alarmingly high rates. The latest National Postsecondary Student Aid Study findings corroborate previous surveys that college students face higher rates of food and housing insecurity than the general population.

Join our expert presenter on Thursday, November 7, 2024, as she shares insight into this growing concern and creative solutions that involve the whole campus community in supporting financially vulnerable students. She will share methods to assess and address the current need on your campus, successful campus and system-wide initiatives to address the problem, wraparound approaches to student support, and strategies for identifying high risk populations.  

Ensure your initiatives and programs provide opportunities and holistic support to students so they can thrive and persist to achieve their academic goals.

Topics Covered

You will gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Engage stakeholders in critical conversations to ensure initiatives and programs are accessible and provide the necessary support for your at-risk students.
• Implement initiatives that use a holistic approach to student support, uphold the mission of your institution, and sustain students’ personal and academic success.
• Provide critical support to your at-risk students and tailor meet their needs to ensure you retain, persist and graduate them.
• Develop resources for faculty and staff to address equity and inclusion issues to ensure they are empowered to provide the critical support and assistance their lower income students need so they do not fall through the cracks.
• Foster community partnerships and enhance student utilization of community agencies for needs that are beyond the scope of the university.
  

Presenter

Ali Martin Scoufield (she/her) is a scholar-practitioner with twenty years of experience working and leading in higher education. Ali believes in the importance of blending research with practical application and demonstrates this as a Doctoral Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant at Cleveland State University (CSU).
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