In Eleanor Bader’s article “Homeless on Campus”, the harsh truth about homeless college students is dissected and brought to light. With stories like single parents escaping abusive environments, being lost and virtually alone in a country that isn’t your own, and having to spend hours on public transportation to get to school; these individuals are determined to get their education with little-to-no help from the institutions themselves.
Aesha, a twenty one year old single mother to a one year old boy. When her son’s father became abusive, she quickly realized she couldn’t stay and was forced to leave. From there they went from the public emergency assistance unit, to hotels, back the EAU where she it takes her bus after bus between the EAU, to her babysitters house, to the school, and back. Aesha informs that her school did offer day …show more content…
And while a number of things have been suggested to help students in these situations like on-or-near campus housing or shelters, ultimately it is not the school's responsibility to provide that.
And with that, many professors have let students stay in their office for months on end opening up a whole new conversation on how ethical that is to do if at all. Should professors continue to knowingly go against policy and allow these students to use their offices and other dorm and campus resources for personal care, or not?
Exactly how responsible are faculty for homeless students or students in general beyond delivering the curriculum? Should more be done by administration at these institutions and if so how much, or has it nothing to do with them? Questions like these arise constantly along with homeless rates in university and community institutions but almost nothing is ever done? What will it take for people to go beyond listening if they should at
Aesha, a twenty one year old single mother to a one year old boy. When her son’s father became abusive, she quickly realized she couldn’t stay and was forced to leave. From there they went from the public emergency assistance unit, to hotels, back the EAU where she it takes her bus after bus between the EAU, to her babysitters house, to the school, and back. Aesha informs that her school did offer day …show more content…
And while a number of things have been suggested to help students in these situations like on-or-near campus housing or shelters, ultimately it is not the school's responsibility to provide that.
And with that, many professors have let students stay in their office for months on end opening up a whole new conversation on how ethical that is to do if at all. Should professors continue to knowingly go against policy and allow these students to use their offices and other dorm and campus resources for personal care, or not?
Exactly how responsible are faculty for homeless students or students in general beyond delivering the curriculum? Should more be done by administration at these institutions and if so how much, or has it nothing to do with them? Questions like these arise constantly along with homeless rates in university and community institutions but almost nothing is ever done? What will it take for people to go beyond listening if they should at