The HIGH Program provides the basics to Wayne State students in need by Jacqueline Wilson, Founding Director of the HIGH Program on September 9, 2016 No student should have to choose between going to class and life’s most basic needs of food and shelter. Since we founded the HIGH Program in 2013, this has become our simple mantra that motivates us each day. Unfortunately, it remains a reality for some Wayne State University students . I discovered this when I first arrived at the university in the summer of 2013, when my husband, M. Roy Wilson, M.D., accepted the honor to be the 12 th  president of Wayne State. It was brought to my attention at an event, that a graduate student was homeless and living out of her car.      She knew that soon she’d earn her degree and benefit from a higher education, but she didn’t want to choose between housing and tuition. And she just didn’t have enough for both. Three years later, the HIGH Program alleviates...