Eleanor Bader Homeless On Campus

Homeless on campus?! Has one ever heard of such a thing? Well it’s a real situation happening all over the United States. Eleanor J. Bader is the author of a short story called Homeless on Campus. Bader wrote about how some students attending college are or have recently become homeless. She hopes to catch the attention of colleges and raise awareness to help those homeless college students in need. Bader does this by showing different ways in which students attend college and live their everyday lives knowing they are homeless.
The first story readers will read about in Bader’s book Homeless on Campus, is about a young twenty-eight-year-old girl named Aesha, who had to leave home with her one-year-old son due to her abusive child’s father.

Adriana sent an application to the LeTrende Education Fund for Homeless Children, a scholarship program administered by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, explaining her story in hopes they would be able to help her. Adriana was eventually awarded a grant from LeTrende to help her out financially with school. Jenn Hecker, the organizing director of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness says, “Each year at our national conference, homeless students come forward to share their stories” (Bader pg.694) in hopes they will be given money to cover the costs of housing and food. Hecker “blames rising housing costs to be the reason so many students are becoming homeless” (Bader pg.694). Supporters for the homeless have seen many college students sleeping in their cars and sneaking into the school’s gym to take a shower and change their clothes. One college that is helping out students is San Diego City College. Rosa LaMuraglia, dean of the San Diego City College of Business, Information Technology, and Cosmetology, said, “the campus has taken several steps to help needy and homeless students, including running a pantry for free food and opening the thrift store Fantastique last January.” (The San Diego Union-Tribune, Warth)
Mary Jean LeTrende, a retired Department of Education administrator and creator of the LeTrende Education

I feel as if the colleges should be raising money or be helping out those in need financially by providing students with a meal plan and also providing students with housing. I feel that the homeless students who are looking for help should go speak to a counselor at the university or even try talking to the President of the school and voice their opinion on what the colleges should do to help. Faculty members have secretly been helping homeless students by letting them sleep in their offices. In doing that, those faculty members are risking their job but also at the same time they are stepping up to the plate and doing what is right to help others. This shows that the faculty members truly care for their students and want to see them do well in school. Every student attending a college just wants to become successful, but I feel as if the homeless students were helped out more by the colleges it would take a huge weight off of their