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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Description: The new essay collection Food Insecurity on College Campuses edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady explores the widespread problem of food insecurity among college students and the overlapping and compounding issues that lead students to choose between getting enough to eat and paying the costs of a college education. As the editors make clear in the introduction to the collection, todayâs college student has changed significantly from the expected âyoung adult, attending college full-time immediately after high school,â and the economic landscape they are dealing with is far different from what many administrators and faculty assume...