The Re-Imagine the Student Experience (RISE) Framework: A Socio-Ecological Model of College Student Basic Needs
Tremendous progress has been made in tackling the college student basic needs crisis. Significant investments have been made by State legislatures and by higher education institutions across the country and it has made a difference in the lives of so many students. Across the country, basic needs security is now understood to be a critical factor in student success. However, further progress in this movement hinges upon an evolution in dominant paradigms which view student financial, housing and food insecurity as individual student problems. It is time for a more holistic framing of the causes and solutions for student financial struggles, food and housing insecurity, and homelessness.
CEHE is pleased to share The RISE Framework: A Socio-Ecological Model for College Student Basic Needs that aims to describe the full complexity of student basic needs and situate them in their social, political, and economic context. We invite you to join us in building the concepts in the Framework so that it truly captures the multi-layered determinants of student basic needs challenges and the strategies that will ensure all students thrive.
