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    Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating

    A new survey finds that many students at universities and community colleges are struggling to pay for basic needs — and that's hampering their ability to learn and complete their degrees.
    by Laurel Dalrymple Apr 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Caleb Torres, a senior at George Washington University, says he ran out of grocery money his freshmen year, so he began skipping meals.

    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.

    On Tuesday, the HOPE lab released a new report based on an online survey of more than 40,000 students at

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