About one in five (18 percent) undergraduate students are parents. Despite the fact that student parents represent a sizable portion of the undergraduate student population, most four-year colleges continue to cater to "traditional" students who are 18-24 years old, are not employed full-time, and do not have dependent children. Meanwhile, the colleges that do place greater focus on older students, like community colleges, are generally under-resourced. Nevertheless, college student populations are becoming increasingly "nontraditional," meaning they are older than 24, employed full-time, and have dependent children. More than one-third are over 25, according to Spark Collaborative, and about half are first-generation college students. Student parents and other nontraditional college students face unique challenges to academic success and degree attainment, including financial barriers, managing work, school, and family responsibilities, and a lack of tailored institutional support services.