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| MAY 2022  \nHungry Minds: Student Awareness and Use of Food Pantries at 91 Colleges and Universities  \nAllyson Cornett, CPH, MPH May 2022  \nRecommended Citation: Cornett, A. (2022) . Hungry minds: Student awareness and use of food pantries at 91 colleges and universities. Trellis Company.  \nKey Findings  \n• Ninety-one of the 104 colleges and universities (88 percent) who participated in the Fall 2021 implementation of the Student Financial Wellness Survey (SFWS) had at least one food pantry or closet on campus.  \n• Of the 49,946 participants who attended a school with anon-campus food distribution center, only 38 percent knew of the resource, while 53 percent were unaware.  \n• Forty-two percent of those who were not aware that their institution offered a food pantry were food insecure.  \n• Nearly a third (31 percent) who knew of a pantry offered by their institution and were food insecure did not visit any food distribution centers, on-or off-campus, since January 1, 2021.  \nDoes your school have a food pantry or food closet on campus?*  \n62%  \n38%  \n42%  \nof these students were food insecure  \nAware of Pantry  \nNot Aware of Pantry  \n*Of those attending a college or university with one or more food distribution center(s)  \nWhen students are food insecure, they often encounter adverse health, social, and academic outcomes, including harm to cognitive functions, mental health, and academic performance. Additionally, compared to food secure peers, students struggling with food insecurity are 43 percent less likely to graduate from college with a two-or four-year degree.1,2  \nWith recent estimates of food insecurity among postsecondary students as high as 45 percent, many colleges and universities have responded by implementing on-campus food distribution centers (i.e., food pantries or closets) to better assist students struggling to meet their basic needs.3 These pantries often provide more than food to students, including personal hygiene products, toiletries, diapers, personnel trained to assist applicants with applying to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other benefit programs, and more.  \nNinety-one of the 104 colleges and universities who participated in Trellis’ Fall 2021 Student Financial Wellness Survey (SFWS) had at least one food pantry available to students. To better understand student awareness and utilization of this resource, this brief examines data from 49,946 students attending a school with one or more food pantries (as of November 1, 2021) and who responded to the corresponding question: “Does your school have a food pantry or food closet on campus?” Data from the 13 institutions without a food distribution center on campus were excluded from this analysis.  \nTRELLIS RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT REPORT BRIEF  \nAwareness of Food Pantries  \nOf the 49,946 students attending a school with an  \non-campus food distribution center, 38 percent were aware of the pantry, 53 percent did not know of it, and nine percent indicated, incorrectly, that their campus did not have this resource. Sixty percent of those who answered, “I don’t know,” or “no,”(n=30,823) were food insecure, housing insecure, or homeless—indicating a lack of awareness of this benefit among students who may need this assistance the most. Additionally, 42 percent of these students were low or very low food secure.  \nStudents with knowledge of an on-campus food pantry or closet were more likely to report certain life circumstances, including: (1) working part-time; (2) living on campus; (3) identifying as female; and (4) experiencing one or more forms of basic needs insecurity.  \nWhen institutions provide on-campus food distribution centers, it often signals that the school not only cares about student success, health, and well-being, but that struggles with food insecurity and hunger are (unfortunately) common during college. Offering food pantries and other resources to students can also help fo","cbCaibXr8RlLHtAB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibXr8RlLHtAB","pdf",407532,"English","# Awareness of Food Pantries\n## Use of Food Pantries\n# Conclusion","[{\"question\":\"What proportion of participating colleges and universities offered an on-campus food pantry or closet?\",\"answer\":\"Ninety-one of the 104 institutions (88%) offered at least one food pantry or closet on campus.\"},{\"question\":\"How many surveyed students were aware of an on-campus food pantry, and how many were not?\",\"answer\":\"Among 49,946 students at campuses with a food distribution center, 38% were aware and 53% did not know of the resource (with 9% incorrectly reporting none existed).\"},{\"question\":\"What did the report find about pantry use among food-insecure students?\",\"answer\":\"Even among students who knew a pantry and were food insecure, nearly a third (31%) did not visit any food distribution centers since January 1, 2021, indicating barriers beyond availability.\"}]","Hungry Minds: Student Awareness and Use of Food Pantries at 91 Colleges and Universities | PDF",1792062169]