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The research explores how connecting students to basic needs resources impacts their academic success.

January 17, 2026Disability Compliance for Higher Education0 citations

Connecting students to basic needs resources boosts their overall success

CMClaudine McCarthyIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

Key Points

The research explores how connecting students to basic needs resources impacts their academic success.
Surveyed students on basic needs security regarding food and housing.
Analyzed the relationship between basic needs insecurity and college dropout rates.
Evaluated data from The Hope Center Student Basic Needs National Survey.
Three in five students report basic needs insecurity related to food and housing.
14% of students experience homelessness.
79% of students attribute their prior college dropout to basic needs insecurity.

Abstract

INDIANAPOLIS — When students don’t know where their next meal will come from or if they’ll have a bed to sleep that night, it has a significant impact on their success. In fact, three in five students experience basic needs insecurity related to food and/or housing and 14% experience homelessness, according to Anne E. Lundquist, Director of The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs at Temple University, where she›s also Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Health and Population Science in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. And 79% of student respondents to The Hope Center Student Basic Needs National Survey attributed basic needs insecurity as the main factor for previously stopping out of college, she added.

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