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MCC Daily Tribune

SUNY Schools are Ensuring Students Stay Nourished and Healthy to Increase Success in College

A lack of regular access to food is an issue that plagues approximately half of today's college students. In addition to negatively affecting students' health, food insecurity, or the absence of food, impacts a student's ability to succeed academically and graduate. Recognizing that hunger should not be an obstacle for students to thrive academically, colleges and universities have long been at work developing the means to support students in need. Spurred by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's leadership to make New York the first state in the nation to have a comprehensive program to combat student hunger, and with new efforts and partnerships on the rise, all 64 of SUNY's colleges and universities now have a food pantry or stigma-free food access available to their students as of December 2018.

[Read the rest of this SUNY feature story.]

Cynthia Mapes
Marketing and Community Relations
01/28/2019