Today is the last day of #StudentParentMonth, a month to celebrate and reflect upon the roughly one in five students in America’s postsecondary education system who are caring for children.
Did you know that in beauty schools, that number jumps to one in three?
#edusky
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Check out our new report on strategies colleges can use to connect student parents with child care services.
Excited to wrap up #StudentParentMonth with sharing our this report - but rest assured the work and uplifting of student parents will continue next month + beyond.
To wrap up #StudentParentMonth, our #HigherEd policy team has just published detailed insight into why on-campus #ChildCare helps parenting students stay enrolled and graduate—but also why it’s not a silver bullet.
🧸 Read here how colleges must design multiple strategies to truly meet their needs.
A young girl wearing a bright yellow cardigan kisses her mother on the cheek; the mother is smiling
Welcome to #StudentParentMonth!
It's time to honor and celebrate the achievements of parenting students—and importantly, it's an opportunity to prepare policy solutions to common problems they face, like finding and affording #ChildCare.
🎷 So we're headed down to the Big Easy to do just that!
