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Building a Packet for Success

Back to school shopping should be an exciting time for many children and parents. Yet, for families that have…

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Centering Student Parent Families in COVID-19 Response

For the nearly four million undergraduate students with dependent children—including 2.7 million mothers—earning a college degree can make a…

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Student Parents and the Opportunity to Support Multiple Generations of Families

For 14 years, I have been an Institutional Researcher at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, NY. On March…

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Fall 2020: A Senior In The Making, A Mother Soon Breaking

I, like the rest of nearly four million student parents, am already juggling a million different tasks all at…

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Time to Innovate: How We Can Harness an Unprecedented Moment in Higher Education to Better Serve Student Parents

Before the COVID-19 pandemic upturned how all of us work and learn, nearly four million student parents—more than a…

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Reimagining Higher Ed for Equity and Student Parent Success

“Was higher ed designed for minority students?”  A student asked this question during a Temple University “Sociology of Education” class…

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I am in my senior year and want to take advantage of networking opportunities for my future career, but do I just become a non-present parent for my kids? Do I delay adjusting my immigration status until I am done with school, but risk losing status and being deported? What do I do? It’s a question no one else can answer for me.

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Fall 2020: A Senior In The Making, A Mother Soon Breaking

I, like the rest of nearly four million student parents, am already juggling a million different tasks all at…

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  • COVID-19, Online Education

    Powerful Together: Competency-Based Education and Online Delivery

    Higher education—and sweeping aspects of American life—were upended seemingly overnight in March. Millions of students started the month on campuses across the…

  • Equity, Racial Equity

    Promoting Equity for Black Lives in Postsecondary Education

    It has been inspiring and hopeful to see higher education leaders, including those who lead large community college systems, speaking out about systemic racism…

  • COVID-19

    For the Next Stimulus Package, Direct Aid to States for Public Higher Education

    As Congress prepares for another round of stimulus legislation this summer, the unprecedented financial challenges confronting public colleges and universities…

  • COVID-19

    Today’s Students Didn’t Need a Pandemic

    Today’s students didn’t need a pandemic. They didn’t need the added financial pressures, their kids at home, and their lives interrupted. They also didn’t need…

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    Working Together During the Crisis

    When I was asked to contribute to this blog, I wanted to sit down and write a piece full of professional assurance and effortless insight. Something pithy and …

  • COVID-19

    The Future Economic Stability Depends on How Well Higher Education Can Adapt

    The great pandemic of 2020 has unarguably changed the way we do business and function in our day to day lives. Routines have been disrupted, and nothing feels …

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