Retaining students with foster care experience in college

Students with foster care experience face unique barriers while in college, making them less likely to graduate compared to their peers.

When Foster Youth Go to College - Institute for Research on Poverty

Journal of. College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 23(1), 28 ... students with foster care experience take through college. Financial ...

The Challenge of Retaining College Students Who Grew up in

A Portrait of Young People Who Grow up in Foster Care. The experience of growing up in foster care does not prepare young people well for college. (Geenen and ...

An Introduction to the Special Issue on Foster Care and Higher ...

Although no national statistics exist, studies show that only approximately 3–10% of students with foster care experience will earn a college ...

Colleges and universities guide former foster care youth

Compared to their peers, students who were in the foster care system are less likely to enroll in college or earn a degree.

Students in Foster Care | U.S. Department of Education

Current national research shows that children in foster care are at high-risk of dropping out of school and are unlikely to attend or graduate from college.

Supporting Students from Foster Care - NASPA

Encourage and engage in mentoring relationships. Mentoring relationships are consistently listed as promising practices for college students, ...

Underserved: Supporting Students with Foster Care Experiences

Educate yourself. It is imperative to understand common barriers to foster youths' college success. An awareness of potential challenges ...

Fostering Higher Education: A Postsecondary Access and Retention ...

Young people with foster care experience are much less likely to earn a college degree than their non-foster peers (National Working Group on ...

Former foster youth experiences with higher education

Although college completion rates are age-dependent, postsecondary education has proven to be a momentous challenge for foster care alumni, with only an ...

Career Support for Former Foster Care Students in Higher Education

Foster care agencies report that only five percent of foster youth go to college and fewer than 2% of foster youth graduate with a ...

Supporting College Students Transitioning Out of Foster Care

A forthcoming companion brief describes results from a formative evaluation of two employment programs for young people with experience in foster care. a OPRE ( ...

Positive Attributes of Foster Care That Promote Access to Higher ...

Among foster youth attending college, the majority of enrolled students were also more likely to pursue a 2-year rather than 4-year college ...

New Book Examines Foster Care Students in College

But foster youth can also be reluctant to ask for help. Institutions should be making efforts to meet these students where they are and provide ...

A Framework to Approach Postsecondary Educational Program ...

Colleges vary in their engagement of policy to ensure that students with experience in foster care have the best possible chance to maintain the necessities of ...

Study Explores Factors Impacting Post-College Success for Foster ...

Foster care alumni also have the same, if not higher, aspirations as their peers to attend college; however, their enrollment, retention and ...

Foster Youth: Campus, Community Interventions Hold Great ...

With growing awareness of the challenges young people with experience in foster care face in accessing and completing college, ...

The effectiveness of a self-determination coaching model for ...

For instance, students with a history of foster care can still struggle with keeping up with coursework and paying for college expenses. This ...

Stopping Out and its Impact on College Graduation Among a ...

Youths and young adults who exit foster care and enroll in postsecondary education are a subgroup of nontraditional students who have been found to be ...

Bridging the Gap Between Foster Youth and Higher Education

Results indicate that students from foster care are significantly different from their non-foster-care peers in their readiness to engage in ...