Student Basic Needs: The Heart of Student Success

Evidence shows that students’ ability to learn and succeed is directly linked to their ability to secure food, housing, mental healthcare, childcare, and other basic needs. Three in five college students experience one or more forms of basic needs insecurity. Promoting basic needs security is central to learning and is critical for college student success and degree completion. Plummeting enrollment numbers and changing dynamics in higher education represent an opportunity for higher education staff, faculty and administrators to use a data-informed, human-centered, equity-minded approach to adapt systems and practices to meet student basic needs. Dr. Anne E. Lundquist, Director and Assistant Professor at The Hope Center in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University will share the latest survey results from The Hope Center's student basic needs survey, highlight relevant policies and associated supports, and showcase examples of innovative and effective practices for institutions to create an ecosystem to ensure students' basic needs are met.

Join Dr. Anne E. Lundquist from The Hope Center at Temple University in this eLumenation session.

About the presenter

Dr. Anne E. Lundquist,  (she/her/hers), is Director and Assistant Professor at The Hope Center in the Department of Urban Health and Population Science at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Prior to coming to Hope, Anne served as Assistant Vice President for Campus Strategy for Anthology, Director of Strategic Planning and Assessment for the Division of Student Affairs at Western Michigan University as well as senior student affairs officer at four liberal arts colleges. She has taught diverse subject matter, including educational leadership, assessment and research, institutional effectiveness, higher education law, writing, and literature. Anne’s areas of scholarship and interest include strategic planning, enterprise risk management, student success, and equity-minded assessment. She is the co-edtior of Reframing Assessment to Center Equity: Theories, Models and Practices (Stylus, 2022). She holds a MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Educational Leadership, Higher Education, from Western Michigan University. She earned her BA in Religious Studies and English from Albion College.