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Bunker Hill Community College basic needs assistance
Posted by Tristan Remple on July 8, 2024
BHCC’s Single Stop office connects students with basic needs resources like food, housing, childcare, transportation, healthcare, or financial support—essential building blocks to a successful education journey.
The University of Massachusetts Boston Office of Urban and Off-Campus Support Services (U-ACCESS)
Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024
The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs has seen the various non-academic challenges our students encounter on a daily basis, which has led to the establishment of the Office of Urban and Off-Campus Support Services, otherwise known as U-ACCESS. U-ACCESS envisions a campus where students are empowered to effectively engage in the fight against the systems of poverty, pursue economic security, and successfully achieve their academic goals at UMass Boston.
Students basis needs security at Massachusetts Public Colleges & Universities
Posted by Tristan Remple on May 1, 2024
Research shows that many students in Massachusetts experience hunger and/or homelessness, as well as other types of basic needs insecurity that can serve as barriers to degree completion. In 2019, the DHE developed partnerships with other state agencies, campuses, and community-based organizations to create innovative solutions to student housing insecurity. In December 2020, Commissioner Santiago charged members of a Basic Needs Security Advisory Committee to make policy recommendations on how to address growing economic insecurity among students.