Higher Education Food Insecurity Toolkit Development and Feedback

Develop and gain feedback on a food insecurity toolkit for higher education institutions to provide food insecurity programming on campus that will promote a food-secure campus environment.

A search of the literature was completed by 2 researchers to develop the toolkit. The toolkit was assessed using an online 27 item open- and close-ended survey. One hundred twenty-six stakeholders from 106 land grant institutions were contacted to provide perceptions of the developed toolkit, including usefulness, barriers to application, and recommendations for improvement.

Thirty stakeholders from 27 institutions responded. Thematic analysis of feedback covered 4 main topics: layout, overall content, initiatives, and application. Eight themes emerged: visual appeal, organization, value, provoking, comprehensive, barriers, collaboration, and efficiency. Corrections and recommendations were provided for each topic.

The themes derived encompassed the objective of the toolkit. This toolkit serves as a resource that can be utilized by student leaders, clubs or organizations, campus stakeholders, or administrators to begin a food security initiative on campus.