Ongoing since 2014
The Higher Education Access for Parenting Students Research Initiative works with nonprofits, grassroots organizations, community college and university campuses and systems, and others on projects related to college students who are raising children. The initiative offers technical assistance, evaluation, and consulting services focused on program development, classroom and curriculum strategies, data collection, scaling, and other advising and implementation services.
2022 - 2025
The campaign aims to identify the most effective strategies for implementing data tracking and reporting systems that identify parenting students enrolled in college, as well as follow their educational outcomes like grades, retention, and graduation.
Ongoing since 2014
The Find Your Way resource guide is the first nationally comprehensive study of U.S. student parent programs and support services on college and university campuses.
2021 - 2022
In partnership with the Urban Institute, WCW’s Higher Education Access for Parenting Students Research Initiative is developing a policy roadmap to support the needs of parenting students.
Ongoing since 2022
Founded by the Urban Institute, the Wellesley Centers for Women, and The Pregnant Scholar, the SPARK Collaborative’s mission is to build a national coalition to develop bodies of data, research, and insight that inspire and inform meaningful action for pregnant and parenting students.
The Two-Generation Classroom is an evidence-based approach to undergraduate curricula through which student parents partner with children to learn together.
2018 - 2019
This project explored policies that support and impede student parents and other factors within their lived experiences that shape their success.
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