The WSU Pullman Common Reading Program is screening the 2019 documentary Hungry to Learn at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in CUE 203 on the Pullman campus. The screening recognizes both September as Hunger Action Month and also the start of WSU’s year-long consideration of issues of food, hunger, and food insecurity through the use of How the Other Half Eats as the 2024–25 WSU Common Reading. This film puts these issues squarely in the context of campus life through its exploration of the growing number of students in U.S. universities who face food insecurity. The film focuses not only on how this hunger crisis is unfolding on American campuses, but also about initiatives to address it. To underscore the importance of this topic for the WSU system, a 2022 survey of college students across our state by the Washington Student Achievement Council indicates that 40% of college students in the state of Washington are food insecure.
Hungry to Learn will be screened again on Oct. 1 at 4:30 and 7 p.m. For more on How the Other Half Eats, available resources, and this year’s calendar of events and exhibits, see commonreading.wsu.edu.
