Rashida M Crutchfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 6243086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rashida M Crutchfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rashida M |
| FAMILY NAME | Crutchfield |
| SIGNATURE | CRUTCHFIELD R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3285-9816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Finding Solutions
Many economic, academic, and social factors influence college completion, and scholars have documented that a significant cause of students leaving school before graduation is that many do not have their basic needs for food, housing, and health care met. These barriers undermine their academic success by forcing students to reduce the time spent on their studies, work more hours, or stop out of school to support themselves or their families. Unm…
Positive and Negative Experiences of Undergraduate Students Accessing a Campus Food Pantry
This case study research intends to understand students’ experience with accessing a campus food pantry through interviews, observations, and document collection. Findings highlight positive and negative experiences of undergraduate students, including interactions with pantry employees, perceptions of expired food labels, and commuter challenges in accessing the pantry. Establishing a campus food pantry demonstrates the action that campuses are …
The Starving Student Narrative
The starving student narrative is a well-known colloquial idiom to describe student struggle in higher education. This rhetoric masks the reality of basic need insecurity for students and normalizes food insecurity and homelessness. This qualitative study explores the experiences of 213 students who experienced homelessness and food insecurity. Findings show that students experiencing basic need insecurity reported detrimental impacts on their ed…
“I’m Supposed to Be Helping Others”
Some students in higher education experience food insecurity and homelessness; however, the experience specifically for social work students has not been explored. This qualitative study investigates the experiences of 16 social work students in 4-year universities who lacked basic needs and examines how their need to seek support influenced their educational careers. Findings show that students faced tremendous challenges in their physical, ment…
Getting help
There is growing awareness in higher education institutions concerning the barriers faced by students who experience food and housing insecurity, and some institutions have begun to enact programs and services to help mitigate student barriers. This qualitative study examines the perceptions of college students experiencing basic needs insecurity who accessed a short-term emergency support program at a university campus in southern California. St…
Researching food and housing insecurity among America’s college students
College and university faculty, staff, and administrators are increasingly aware that their student body is experiencing basic need challenges including food and housing insecurity. As a result, a small but developing body of literature is emerging that documents the prevalence and implications of food and housing insecurity among college students. This paper describes three unique efforts, offering insight and recommendations to institutions or …
Be supportive and understanding of the stress that youth are going through
Family reunification in child welfare practice
It's just not right to move a kid that many times
Perspectives
Perspectives
Family reunification in child welfare practice
It's just not right to move a kid that many times
The Starving Student Narrative
The starving student narrative is a well-known colloquial idiom to describe student struggle in higher education. This rhetoric masks the reality of basic need insecurity for students and normalizes food insecurity and homelessness. This qualitative study explores the experiences of 213 students who experienced homelessness and food insecurity. Findings show that students experiencing basic need insecurity reported detrimental impacts on their ed…
“I’m Supposed to Be Helping Others”
Some students in higher education experience food insecurity and homelessness; however, the experience specifically for social work students has not been explored. This qualitative study investigates the experiences of 16 social work students in 4-year universities who lacked basic needs and examines how their need to seek support influenced their educational careers. Findings show that students faced tremendous challenges in their physical, ment…
Getting help
There is growing awareness in higher education institutions concerning the barriers faced by students who experience food and housing insecurity, and some institutions have begun to enact programs and services to help mitigate student barriers. This qualitative study examines the perceptions of college students experiencing basic needs insecurity who accessed a short-term emergency support program at a university campus in southern California. St…
Researching food and housing insecurity among America’s college students
College and university faculty, staff, and administrators are increasingly aware that their student body is experiencing basic need challenges including food and housing insecurity. As a result, a small but developing body of literature is emerging that documents the prevalence and implications of food and housing insecurity among college students. This paper describes three unique efforts, offering insight and recommendations to institutions or …
Be supportive and understanding of the stress that youth are going through
Positive and Negative Experiences of Undergraduate Students Accessing a Campus Food Pantry
This case study research intends to understand students’ experience with accessing a campus food pantry through interviews, observations, and document collection. Findings highlight positive and negative experiences of undergraduate students, including interactions with pantry employees, perceptions of expired food labels, and commuter challenges in accessing the pantry. Establishing a campus food pantry demonstrates the action that campuses are …
Finding Solutions
Many economic, academic, and social factors influence college completion, and scholars have documented that a significant cause of students leaving school before graduation is that many do not have their basic needs for food, housing, and health care met. These barriers undermine their academic success by forcing students to reduce the time spent on their studies, work more hours, or stop out of school to support themselves or their families. Unm…
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medical education (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Food insecurity (5 works) · Food security (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works)