Ending Hunger

Thousands of TCC students are receiving food assistance from various campuses as a patchwork effort to curb student hunger.

Former student Michele Price benefited from a NE Campus food pantry. As a full-time student supporting two kids, her mother and a grandchild, she worried about buying groceries.

Price said after completing a short form, she was free to “grocery shop” at the pantry once a week.

“The food pantry kept my family fed,” she said.

Price is not alone. A study released in April found 36 percent of college students grappled with food insecurity at some point in the last 30 days. And for community college students, the risk of being hungry is even higher, at 42 percent...

Check out The Collegian and catch my story about starving college students. No, really. It's no joke. See how Tarrant County College is relieving hunger pangs on its campuses.