Student Parent Success Initiative SPSI

Evaluating the Role of Campus Child Care in Student Parent Success
Evaluating the Role of Campus Child Care in Student Parent Success

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.

By Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Amanda Hare and Susana Contreras-Mendez|2021-12-03T12:22:12-05:00October 26, 2021|Briefing Paper, Publications, Student Parent Success Initiative|0 Comments

Report: Child-Care Barrier for OR Parents in College
Report: Child-Care Barrier for OR Parents in College

Report: Child-Care Barrier for OR Parents in College

By Eric Tegethoff PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon college students who [...]

By IWPR|2021-04-15T10:27:11-05:00April 15, 2021|Press Hits|0 Comments

New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic
New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic

New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 16, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | [...]

By Erin Weber|2021-03-16T11:35:36-05:00March 16, 2021|Press Releases|0 Comments

Centering the Student Voice: Community Colleges and Sexual and Reproductive Health Access in Texas and Mississippi
Centering the Student Voice: Community Colleges and Sexual and Reproductive Health Access in Texas and Mississippi

Centering the Student Voice: Community Colleges and Sexual and Reproductive Health Access in Texas and Mississippi

Community college students’ lives outside of the classroom—including their sexual and reproductive health— can directly impact their ability to succeed in school, yet most community colleges do not provide sexual and reproductive health services (Bernstein and Reichlin Cruse 2020). Growing efforts to implement holistic approaches to student success also often ignore the role that sexual and reproductive health outcomes can play students’ academic careers.

By Anna Bernstein and Lindsey Reichlin Cruse|2023-08-17T22:12:24-05:00January 12, 2021|Center for Success, Center for the Economics of Reproductive Health, Report, Student Parent Success Initiative|0 Comments

Congress Must Double Down on Pandemic Relief for Students Parents at Community Colleges
Congress Must Double Down on Pandemic Relief for Students Parents at Community Colleges

Congress Must Double Down on Pandemic Relief for Students Parents at Community Colleges

Congress needs to act now to support student parents and avoid further pandemic related educational interruptions by providing relief for those at community colleges.

By Susana Contreras-Mendez|2020-12-07T18:15:28-05:00December 7, 2020|In the Lead|0 Comments

The Learning Bulletin Board
The Learning Bulletin Board

The Learning Bulletin Board

Online education tools, mental health care and more: a collection of views and news from our special report.

By IWPR|2020-10-19T14:38:46-05:00October 14, 2020|Press Hits|0 Comments

Understanding the Student Parent Experience: The Need for Improved Data Collection on Parent Status in Higher Education
Understanding the Student Parent Experience: The Need for Improved Data Collection on Parent Status in Higher Education

Understanding the Student Parent Experience: The Need for Improved Data Collection on Parent Status in Higher Education

Data on students’ parent status would help campuses, higher education systems, and policymakers assess needs, target supports and services, understand student outcomes, and measure what works to promote student parent enrollment, persistence, and completion.

By Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Barbara Gault and Tessa Holtzman|2020-10-06T18:16:37-05:00October 6, 2020|Briefing Paper, Student Parent Success Initiative|0 Comments

‘It’s a lot to juggle’: College students with children are overwhelmed this school year
‘It’s a lot to juggle’: College students with children are overwhelmed this school year

‘It’s a lot to juggle’: College students with children are overwhelmed this school year

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel By 7:45 a.m., A’Ja Ross, 26, helps [...]

By IWPR|2020-09-28T15:47:00-05:00September 28, 2020|Press Hits|0 Comments

Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult
Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult

Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult

The pandemic halted many resources that student parents need to [...]

By IWPR|2020-09-28T15:17:42-05:00September 19, 2020|Press Hits|0 Comments

OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it
OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

Black students with children hold more student loan debt than [...]

By IWPR|2020-09-28T15:59:15-05:00September 16, 2020|Press Hits|0 Comments

Evaluating the Role of Campus Child Care in Student Parent Success

Report: Child-Care Barrier for OR Parents in College

New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic

Centering the Student Voice: Community Colleges and Sexual and Reproductive Health Access in Texas and Mississippi

Congress Must Double Down on Pandemic Relief for Students Parents at Community Colleges

The Learning Bulletin Board

Understanding the Student Parent Experience: The Need for Improved Data Collection on Parent Status in Higher Education

‘It’s a lot to juggle’: College students with children are overwhelmed this school year

Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult

OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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