Sweeping Wins in Minnesota Include Paid Leave and Student Parent Supports
Minnesota Democrats made the most of their slim majority in [...]
This September, Let’s Celebrate Student Parents!
September is National Student Parent Month, a month to celebrate [...]
Policy-at-a-Glance: Securing Student Parent Success
Earning a college degree has long been critical to [...]
State Policy for Student Parent Success: A Landscape Scan of Policy Solutions Enacted at the State Level
While promoting student-parent success has mainly been left to [...]
Dismantling Barriers to Degree Attainment for Black Single Mother Students
A college degree can be a critical tool to economic [...]
Black Women Have Made Major Gains in Higher Education, But Black Single Mothers Still Struggle To Attain Degrees
This fact sheet aims to provide college leaders, student [...]
Underwater: Student Mothers and Fathers Struggle to Support Their Families and Pay Off College Loans
IWPR conducted original research on an often-overlooked group of [...]
STATE POLICY SOLUTIONS FOR STUDENT PARENT SUCCESS WEBINAR AND VIRTUAL CONVERSATION
STATE POLICY SOLUTIONS FOR STUDENT PARENT SUCCESS WEBINAR AND VIRTUAL [...]
All In Together: The Role of The Family Resource Center In Achieving Student Parent Success at Los Angeles Valley College
This fact sheet utilizes survey data and focus group [...]
Evaluating the Role of Campus Child Care in Student Parent Success
To ensure student parents are wholly supported in their educational pathways, research is needed to understand the connection between quality, affordable child care and student parents’ academic outcomes. Yet several challenges persist that make rigorous study of this connection difficult. Drawing on interviews with campus child care directors and a review of data and relevant literature, this brief presents a snapshot of the availability and importance of campus child care services for student parent success. It concludes with recommendations to improve conditions for rigorous research on the role of campus child care in the outcomes of college students with children.
