Parenting Students Rely on Family and Friends for Care. Here’s How Colleges Can Make That Easier.
Most parenting students are relying on family and friends to provide child care. Here are some ways colleges can make that easier.
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Colleges Can Provide Drop-in Care
Community colleges can offer drop-in care. Here is how some colleges are making it work.
How One Community College Is Leveraging Perkins to Support Student Parents
Perkins funding can be used to support student parents in career and technical education programs
Unlocking the Full Potential of CCAMPIS for Student Parents
Funding limitations and barriers keep many parenting students from accessing child care. Federal policymakers can act to expand support.
States Should Invest in Postsecondary Child Care Grants
Parenting students need help to pay for child care. States can help by offering postsecondary child care grants that support student parents
Improving the Quality of AI Certificate Programs
As AI education expands at community colleges, student voices matter in responding to building quality workforce programs.
Child Care Centers on Campus Alone Don’t Solve the Problem
On-campus child care centers are not a sufficient to support child care for student parents. We need other supports too.
Increasing Enrollment: Successful Strategies from Three Community Colleges
What successful strategies did community colleges use to maintain or improve their enrollment figures during COVID-19?
“Not Every Path is Directly to College.” Fewer Students Pursue Degrees, Certificate Programs Are on the Rise.
Shalin Jyotishi is quoted in a Boston Globe article about the rise of certificate programs as alternatives to college degrees.
Are Microcredentials a Path to Good Jobs? Sometimes.
ACS data holds important implications about where microcredentials are–and are not—helping people achieve economic stability.