About one in 10 of California State University’s 460,000 students is homeless, and one in five doesn’t have steady access to enough food, according to the initial findings of a study launched to better understand and address an issue that remains largely undocumented at the US public universities. Homelessness in higher education is difficult to study and measure __＿＿（27）＿＿__. Across the country, the number of students who experience food insecurity largely is undocumented and unknown, and the number of homeless students __＿＿（28）＿＿__ in national surveys. Students with unstable housing conditions are not required to say so, and many are reluctant to seek help because of the shame __＿＿（29）＿＿__ homelessness, said Rashida Crutchfield, an assistant professor at Cal State Long Beach. Crutchfield, __＿＿（30）＿＿__ her research in April 2015, interviewed 92 students and conducted four focus groups at urban and rural campuses. She and her team also __＿＿（31）＿＿__ surveys, reviewed existing resources and asked university staff, faculty and administrators for their impressions of the level of homelessness on their campuses. Many students and faculty members, she said, were unaware that the definition of homelessness __＿＿（32）＿＿__ beyond living on the street. Some students who __＿＿（33）＿＿__ or lived in their cars, for example, did not consider themselves homeless. Initial findings indicated that __＿＿（34）＿＿__ 8% to 12% of Cal State’s students are homeless, and 21% to 24% are food insecure, she said. Crutchfield and her team talked to professors who gave students money and kept food in their desks for __＿＿（35）＿＿__ their struggles. “A lot of these conversations __＿＿（36）＿＿__ inside our office with the door shut,” one university staffer told Crutchfield.