- SUPPORTING STUDENT PARENTS
Student parents and other nontraditional college students face unique challenges to academic success and degree attainment, including financial barriers, managing work, school, and family responsibilities, and a lack of tailored institutional support services
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This brief explores how higher education institutions support student-parents’ academic success, persistence, and degree or program completion and how institutions can help student-parents access higher education’s long-term social and economic benefits
- Who Are Undergraduates with Dependent Children? An Updated Overview of . . .
Students with dependent children—also known as student parents or parenting students1—are a diverse and highly motivated group with one thing in common: caring for children, whose needs affect the students’ life decisions and trajectories (Ryberg et al 2024; Wilsey 2013)
- Understanding the needs of parenting college students
Student parents make up around 22 percent of all learners in higher education, and a majority of them are single parents Among surveyed students, researchers found a need for additional financial support related to tuition, basic needs and childcare to promote academic success
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Check out these resources to learn more about student parents, their needs, and how policy change can help Questions? Leading the annual National Student Parent Month celebration to support parenting students year-round A collective effort powered by Today's Students Coalition
- Parenting Students: What They Need and What Institutions Can Do
Parents are often juggling multiple responsibilities which impact the time and energy they can dedicate to their education
- Parents in College By the Numbers - IWPR
Roughly one in five Hispanic students (21 percent), White students (21 percent), and students of more than one race (20 percent) are parents, as are 13 percent of Asian students
- Student-Parent Data: What We Know, What We Don’t, and How to Find O
y supports for student-parent success (Goodman, Osche, and Hatch 2023) Thorough data collection is necessary to better understand student-parents’ experiences pursuing higher education, their academic progress, their educational outcomes (e g , retention and graduation rates), and their utilization of campus support services to better
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