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Identifying Institutional Needs for Student Parents in Community Colleges: Recommendation for Successful Policy and Practice

Adrian H. Huerta, Maritza E. Salazar, Edgar F. Lopez, Gabriela Torres, Lauren M. Badajos, Norma A. Lopez Matias Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) Community colleges serve as the primary entry point for many nontraditional student populations. Over 3.8 million students in higher education are student parents (e.g., college students with dependents), and 42% of student parents are enrolled in community […]

Student Parents in Community Colleges: Building Support Systems to Ensure Education Success

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News student parents adrian huerta community college equity

By Adrian Huerta In 2018, my colleague Cecilia Rios-Aguilar at UCLA started a multi-year research project on student parents in community colleges with support from a seed grant from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We sought to understand how student parents make sense of their career and educational experiences in a two-year college. We interviewed […]

USC’s Pullias Center to Focus on Support Systems for Student Parents with New Grant from Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation

March 15, 2022March 18, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News student parents adrian huerta community college equity

Community college student parents experience many struggles and challenges that contribute to being less likely to earn a college degree, credential or certificate, but are more likely to thrive with targeted institutional support systems. The Pullias Center will document the best practices for student parents with support from a grant provided by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation. The study will focus […]

New Brief Examines Collegiate Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents

March 30, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News student parents college success adrian huerta community college

The publication is one of a pair of briefs from UC Davis seeking to build broader understanding of the challenges student parents face in higher education. Like a Juggler: The Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents in a California Community College provides findings from a large mixed-method study to explore how student parents navigated community college, received information, and made […]