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Student-Parents in the U.S. Higher Education System

Over 3.1 million undergraduate students in the U.S. higher education system are student- parents.* With the generous support of. Imaginable Futures, the ...

Student-Parents in the U.S. Higher Education System

Displays statistics spotlighting student-parents to emphasize the need to better understand and support this growing student population.

Student-Parents - American Council on Education

​Data show that approximately one in five undergraduates in the United States—over 3.1 million students—are pursuing higher education while they are ...

Student Parent Success Initiative - IWPR

These student parents, however, are often overlooked on college campuses and in the broader system of higher education, and lack access to the supports ...

For Student Parents, The Biggest Hurdles to A Higher Education are ...

It's hard to be a student parent. College students who are parenting must juggle work and family responsibilities while going to school and ...

Campus Engagement Tip: Boost Resources for Students With Children

Student parents make up around 22 percent of all learners in higher education ... Higher Ed Unionization Has Surged Since 2012, Bucking U.S. ...

Student-Parent Families at the Center - Urban Institute

Student parents make up nearly a quarter of undergraduate students and nearly a third of graduate students, but parenting students complete college at a much ...

Addressing How Student Parents Are Underserved | Diverse

Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California. While ...

How to empower student-parents in higher education | EAB

Many young student parents depend on support systems to provide for their families with limited incomes. Over 80% of respondents reported an ...

We must champion our student parents - EdSource

According to a New America survey, nearly 40% of student parents who stopped out of college cited caregiving and school work as significant ...

PARENTS IN COLLEGE - Institute for Women's Policy Research

Source: IWPR analysis of data from the U.S. Department of. Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015-16. National Postsecondary Student Aid ...

Building Support for Student Parents - LearningWell Magazine

Parenting students are trying to succeed, while receiving limited support from higher education and financial aid systems that were not designed ...

College student parents reshape higher education spaces

Watching her navigate higher education as a student parent made me curious about research on this often-overlooked student population. Only 37 ...

Podcast: Tracking college students who are parents - Inside Higher Ed

National data estimates that around 20 percent of students are caregivers or parents, but in actuality, there is no national record of student ...

Supporting Student Parents is Much More than Providing Child Care

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly one in four undergraduate students in 2015-16 were parents. About 40 percent ...

Five Ways to Support Student Parents During and Beyond Student ...

... higher education system with dependent children. A majority of ... Over the last two years, the higher education team at New America ...

We're still missing something: shining a light on student parents

According to researchers at UC Davis, there are hundreds of thousands of student parents on college campuses across California, a population ...

Student Parent Success Is a Force-Multiplier for Higher Education

Student Parent Success Is a Force-Multiplier for Higher Education · Forty percent of respondents felt isolated as a parenting student on campus; ...

The Landscape of Parenting Students: An Incomplete Picture of the ...

These data show that addressing the needs of student parents can also help higher education systems reach their goals of reducing equity gaps ...

Pregnant and Parenting Student Initiative | Student Basic Needs

More than one-fifth of undergraduate college students—about 3.7 million—in the U.S. are parents.