UC Berkeley junior Kiyoko Pitts checks out at the campus food pantry. The goal of the program is to ease stress on students who, in high-cost California, average more than $2,000 a month in spending on food, housing, books and supplies. (Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there.

The one thing they didn’t do together? Graduate.

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