BC3 Effort To Assist Food-Insecure Students Turns 2
A Butler County Community College initiative to confront food insecurity this month marks its second anniversary, not from its original snack rack, not from its subsequent cramped room behind a kitchen, but from a spacious classroom whose shelves of nutritious nonperishables help to feed a drive-up food bank that provided Thanksgiving turkeys and holiday hams last fall. The free grab-and-go food station that debuted in February 2019 outside Karen Jack’s office in the college’s Student Success Center followed a report that nearly 40 percent of BC3 students who responded to a 2018 survey indicated they experienced low or very low…