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Tag: Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Opinion
Oregon is Finally Counting Student Parents. Other States Should Follow.
The only way many colleges have a sense of how many student parents attend is based on FAFSA, the financial aid form students fill out that asks whether they have any dependents. But some students don’t file a FAFSA or report their children as dependents, for a variety of reasons, resulting in an underestimate of the student parent population. Thus, even NCES data may underestimate the number of student parents, and is unlikely to capture many who are “acting as a parent” but are not the biological parents of the children that they care for.
June 7, 2021
Community Colleges
IWPR Report Highlights Challenges of Student-Parents
Using first-hand experiences, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released a new report to highlight the ongoing challenges faced by student-parents and provide recommendations for institutions to help address their needs.
March 30, 2021
Latest News
Achieving the Dream Conference Highlights Importance of Community Partnerships
Native communities have a “complicated” relationship with education, according to University of Southern California English Professor Dr. David Treuer. His educational experiences were highlighted during the third day of Achieving the Dream’s virtual conference on Thursday.
February 18, 2021
COVID-19
How Workforce Credentials Can Become More Accessible After COVID-19
U.S. employers cut 20.5 million jobs in April, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate surged to 14.7% this month. People need work, and for some, that’s going to mean going back to school for new credentials. With the pandemic as a backdrop, a webinar– hosted by the center-left think tank Third Way and sponsored by the Lumina Foundation – explored how workforce credentialing could be made quicker and more accessible to those who need it most.
May 20, 2020
COVID-19
Advocates Push for COVID-19 Benefits for Working College Students
Duquesne University graduate student Terrell Nelson works part-time as a leasing agent at an apartment complex, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, his hours have been reduced by more than two-thirds causing his income to plummet. What’s more, under the latest pandemic-related legislation passed by Congress, Nelson and numerous other working college students have been […]
May 7, 2020
African-American
Student Parents Face Severe Housing and Food Insecurity, a New Report Finds
Student parents face severe housing and food insecurity, according to a new report from the Hope Center For College, Community, and Justice, a research center focused on college completion.
May 7, 2020
MSIs
Booker Proposes Bill to Support Student Parents at Community Colleges and Minority Serving Institutions
New legislation – introduced by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Wednesday – could improve student life for struggling parents. The Preparing and Resourcing Our Student Parents and Early Childhood Teachers Act, or the PROSPECT Act, would offer competitive grants to community colleges and minority serving institutions to create free childcare options for student parents. Institutions could apply for up to $20 million in funding.
November 21, 2019
Latest News
Report: Head Start-College Partnerships Improve Success for Student Parents
Head Start services and on-campus childcare centers can help student parents earn their degrees and establish long-term economic security.
October 31, 2019
Latest News
Achieving the Dream Convene Stakeholders to Discuss Student Parent Report
Achieving the Dream, an education based non-profit, hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill alongside their national partners to discuss the newly-released report of the Government Accountability Office which focuses on student parents.
September 12, 2019
Women
Policy Research: College Promise Programs Are Excluding Student Parents
Twenty percent of college students in the United States are raising children, yet the much-touted “free college” initiatives, also known as Promise programs, often “unintentionally exclude” these students when offering financial support, according to a briefing paper released this week by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR).
June 27, 2019
STEM
Gender Pay Gap Wide Among Graduates of Elite Schools
The gender wage gap is real – even when looking at pay differences between men and women who graduate from America’s leading colleges and universities, according to a recent study that found a 19-percent difference in annual earnings.
August 16, 2018
Students
Single Moms with College Degrees Less Likely to Experience Poverty
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) this week adds to the institute’s ongoing research on the “life-changing” impact of earning a postsecondary degree for single mothers. IWPR’s findings show that, in 2016 – the year with the latest available data – just 13 percent of single mothers who earned a […]
August 1, 2018
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