Kutztown University: A Case Study

main problem of meal plan are the limited options for students who do not have a meal plan and who are looking for quick inexpensive options when it comes to eating on campus. Kutztown University’s Dining Services is, “responsible for providing meal plan options that meet the nutritional and dietary needs of the University community” (kutztown.edu/dining). However, the significant changes Dining Services has made to the meal plan options during the 2016/2017 school year have prompted some disgruntled responses from students. According to students, the meal plans are becoming too expensive and options for places to use their meal plans at are dwindling.
The environment in which this problem exists is with the students with meal plans and the University. Many students disagree with the change and are looking to the school to fix them. The biggest problem is that restructuring an …show more content…
We talked about the implications of this new plan and all the ways the school and students have actually benefited from this new plan. Before Kutztown decided to go with a new meal plan they wanted to know how the current students felt about their current meal plan. The university sent out surveys to the students at the time which was 2010-2011. At this point Dahlquist said that many students wanted a new meal plan. He said that with surveying the current students and the feedback the university had gotten has been positive. 600 students were surveyed of all class levels and 94.6% said they were satifitsfoted with the current meal