ERIC Number: ED644104
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Oct
Pages: 7
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Five Lessons for Supporting Parenting Students with Emergency Aid during the Pandemic
Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice
Parenting while attending college is challenging in the best of times, and the pandemic is making it even more difficult. Yet more than one in five college students, including disproportionately large numbers of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, tried to make it work. Emergency aid in the form of fast, flexible dollars delivered just in time can be a critical means of support to help parenting students and their children survive. Since the onset of the pandemic, Congress has given colleges and universities from coast to coast nearly $70 billion in relief, over $30 billion of which must be spent on emergency aid. This brief examines parenting students' access to and use of that support during fall 2020. The authors draw on results from a survey that reached more than 195,000 students at 202 colleges and universities, including 32,000 parenting students who were parenting, offering primary care to, or acting as a guardian for at least one child.
Descriptors: Child Rearing, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Minority Group Students, Student Needs, Financial Support, Emergency Programs, Knowledge Level, Financial Aid Applicants, Eligibility, Barriers
Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Jones Hall, 1316 West Ontario Street, 6th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19140. e-mail: hopectr@temple.edu ; Web site: https://hopeforcollege.com/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Sponsor: Imaginable Futures; Annie E. Casey Foundation
Authoring Institution: Temple University, Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice
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