Our Mission

In 2017, Student ARC was launched. Here, administrators and professionals at institutions that provide direct support to students can explore emergency aid strategies, learn about strengthening and sustaining emergency aid efforts, and contribute their own views and resources to the conversation.

Student ARC’s mission is to increase student retention in colleges and universities across the nation by:

• Emphasizing the value of emergency resource offerings at higher education institutions.
• Providing effective strategies for structuring, promoting, administering, evaluating and sustaining emergency aid efforts.
• Assisting institutions in their work to strengthen programs that help students continue their education without the heavy burdens of concern about how to address unforeseen expenses.

Across the higher education community, research, advocacy and donor organizations are contributing to a growing conversation around emergency aid. You will find reports, resources, interviews and blogs from them here among the same types of content from institutions engaged in the work..