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Maya Mckeever And Ralph Corbelle Interview, Jennifer Thomson
Maya Mckeever And Ralph Corbelle Interview, Jennifer Thomson
Bucknell: Occupied
Jennifer Thomson, assistant professor of History at Bucknell University, interviews two Bucknell students about their experience with and perspective about food insecurity. McKeever and Corbelle describe the challenges of securing food on a limited budget while in a university regulated market.
Rosalie Rodriguez Interview, Jennifer Thomson
Rosalie Rodriguez Interview, Jennifer Thomson
Bucknell: Occupied
Jennifer Thomson, assistant professor of History at Bucknell University, interviews Rosalie Rodriguez, Director of Multicultural Student Services. Thomson and Rodriguez discuss the issue of food insecurity on college campuses. Rodriguez discusses the factors which lead to campuses which do not support student dietary needs, as well as the cultural conceptions which contribute to food insecurity. She offered examples of policy and cultural changes that support food security for all students, and she mentioned the launch of a food pantry at Bucknell to support students. Guest Kelsey Hicks, Director of the Women's Resource Center, discussed the disproportionate impact of food insecurity …
Augustana College Campus Kitchen: Food Friends, Baillie Brooks, Lauren K. Becker
Augustana College Campus Kitchen: Food Friends, Baillie Brooks, Lauren K. Becker
Celebration of Learning
Faculty, staff and students are highly encouraged to attend this session. During our time we will explore what food insecurity is, what it looks like on campus and how faculty and staff can be resources to students. Faculty and staff who attend will receive a sticker to put outside their office, demonstrating they have participated in the discussion to combat food insecurity on campus.
The Meal Gap: A Food Activist Curriculum, Kameshia L. Shepherd
The Meal Gap: A Food Activist Curriculum, Kameshia L. Shepherd
Graduate Student Independent Studies
The Meal Gap: A Food Activist Curriculum is a series of fifty-four lessons for fourth grade students that introduces them to the topic of food insecurity. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations initiated the World Food Summit in 1996 to discuss and call attention to the “widespread undernutrition and growing concern about the capacity of agriculture to meet future food needs” (Food and Agriculture Organization, n.d.). The June 2006 Policy Brief of the FAO reaffirmed the 1996 definition of food security, which states that “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and …
Deborah Halperin On West Bloomington's Food Desert, Judith Valente
Deborah Halperin On West Bloomington's Food Desert, Judith Valente
Interviews for WGLT
Judith Valente, WGLT, spoke to Debra Halperin about the food desert that exists in west Bloomington, and how community organizations are working to make a difference. Debra Haperin is the director of the Action Research Center (ARC) at Illinois Wesleyan University and a member of the West Bloomington Revitalization Project (WBRP).
Reaching Food Insecure College Students Through An On-Campus Interactive Education Program, Danielle Buchbinder
Reaching Food Insecure College Students Through An On-Campus Interactive Education Program, Danielle Buchbinder
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Need/Purpose: Emerging research suggests food insecurity is a problem for college students. Unpublished data from our campus (a large, Midwestern public institution) suggests 36% of students struggle with food insecurity, yet the campus has no pantry or meals/swipe donation program. While little research has been conducted examining food insecurity’s impact on academic success in college, it is well established that food insecurity negatively impacts academic performance in adolescents, mental and social health, dietary choices, and overall health. Program/Participants: In order to learn more and begin to mediate this problem on our campus, a series of nutrition education classes was created …