In an effort to improve campus food insecurity, the University of California–Santa Barbara has launched a new program entitled “Food, Nutrition and Basic Skills,” The Current reports.
The program, created by the UCSB Food Security Working Group—a campus-based group that collaborates with the university to ensure nutrition for all—will host weekly workshops to teach students how to cook, shop on a budget, manage debt and navigate the campus’ foodservice.
“Food insecurity is a real and growing problem, and the only way we are going to be able to reduce that is to work together,” John Lazarus, assistant director of UCSB’s university center dining, told the website. “This will involve financial aid, residential dining, retail dining, academic divisions, student life—really the entire community.”
Read the full story via The Current.