Colleges & Universities

Operations

University pledges to spend more on local food without raising costs

The University of Utah has joined the Real Food Challenge, pledging to spend 20 percent of the school’s food budget on ‘real food’ over the next five years.

Operations

4 food-recovery rock stars

Here are four college-and-university feeding operations that each have diverted more than 10,000 pounds of food from landfills.

Sodexo announced it is increasing meal swipe prices by five-percent at one Hawaii university due to increases in electricity and other factors.

One Texas college is running a pilot program, selling beer and wine at a number of home baseball games.

NPR reports high room and board expenses leave students paying about $24 a day for food on the cheapest meal plan – twice what the government says an average American spends.

Memorial University officials say parents and students now perceive they are getting sub-standard service and quality on an ongoing basis.

The Princeton Review has announced the Top 50 green colleges.

The contractor and the University Dining Commission are collaborating on an initiative to rethink the college eating experience.

The government report found that one in five foodservice and hotel employees had used illicit substances in the prior month.

Students at the Georgia college are circulating a petition, arguing that they’re required to pay for a meal plan that’s substandard.

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