Basic Needs Insecurity Among Rutgers Students: A Universitywide Survey

This first universitywide survey to assess students’ basic needs insecurities was led by Professors Cara Cuite and Stephanie Brescia with a research team from across all chancellor-led units. It was conducted over a one-month period in fall 2022. The Basic Needs Insecurity Among Rutgers Students: A University Survey expands on the work of earlier surveys conducted by the same researchers within individual chancellor-led units and provides a more detailed understanding of how basic needs insecurity can affect students and the range of resources and services available to assist students.

The survey results will help inform continued innovative and coordinated efforts to meet students’ basic needs and share best practices across all chancellor-led units at Rutgers. The Office of the N.J. Secretary of Higher Education provided funding for the survey through its Hunger Free Campus Grants to Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Cuite, C.L., Brescia, S.A., Sackey, J., El-Buri, H., Dietz, K., Leikrham, C., *Zaragoza, D., Willson, K., Weintraub, D., Darrow, G. (2023). Basic needs insecurities among Rutgers students: A universitywide survey. https://doi.org/10.7282/00000362