Aggie Compass Content

Recent Graduate Wins UC President’s Award

Julia Ann Easley — July 27, 2023 - 12:52pm

Abiel Malepeai is guided by an old Samoan proverb that translates to English as “The pathway to leadership is service.” The recent ��Ƶ graduate has advocated for Pacific Islander students, served as a student EMT with the ��Ƶ Fire Department and helped meet the basic needs of students.

Measuring Meals

Cody Kitaura — June 27, 2023 - 9:00am

Food assistance at ��Ƶ is making students healthier. Learn how efforts to provide food to students in need is making a measurable impact.

Food Truck Offers Free Meals to Students in Need

Julia Ann Easley — April 18, 2023 - 9:30am

Sophomore Alexandra S. took it all in, her face beaming: A food truck on her campus was offering meals for free or whatever students wanted to pay.

WHEN AND WHERE

AggieEats is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays when classes are held, and rotates among four locations: East Quad, Student Health and Wellness Center, Storer Hall and West Village.

Credit, Debit Cards to Benefit Aggie Compass

Julia Ann Easley — June 29, 2021 - 5:10pm

Take out a credit or debit card with ��Ƶ’ new financial services partner and — after just five transactions — you’ll be providing groceries and other essentials for students in need.

��Ƶ Survey: City Apartment Vacancy Rate Eases Some

Julia Ann Easley — February 05, 2020 - 5:34pm

The vacancy rate in the city of Davis has eased slightly, according to a survey released by ��Ƶ Feb. 5.

Addressing Our Students’ Basic Needs

Cody Kitaura — November 06, 2018 - 10:30am

The campus is on track to have a plan by next summer to implement the recommendations of three task forces focused on the basic needs of students.

A new working group, the Basic Needs Oversight Committee, will oversee the implementation of the task forces’ recommendations on the topics of affordable housing, food security and mental health.

��Ƶ Responds to Task Forces’ Recommendations

Julia Ann Easley — September 26, 2018 - 6:34am

Today the ��Ƶ, Davis, released the recommendations of three task forces that addressed basic student needs including affordable student housing, food security and mental health care.

��Ƶ Center at Vanguard of Addressing Food Insecurity Among Students

Julia Ann Easley — September 19, 2018 - 2:29pm

Ryan McClintick knows what it’s like to try to live off the $1 menu at a fast-food place — and learn at the same time. The ��Ƶ, Davis, student didn’t feel well, found himself on academic probation and became socially isolated. He had to put his studies aside for a year to earn some money.

But now he’s helping meet the basic needs of his fellow students through a new campus center at the vanguard of how colleges and universities are addressing the food insecurity affecting more than one in three students nationwide.