Student Tribune
Webinar: Promoting Single Mother Success in Higher Education
Please join members of the MCC Single Moms Success Design Team for a viewing
of the webinar:
Promoting Single Mother Success in Higher
Education: New Data & Promising Strategies
Single mother students, representing nearly two million undergraduate
students, face a range of obstacles to college graduation. Targeted supports,
including access to affordable early learning opportunities, can help them
graduate and improve their children's chances of success, yet many colleges and
universities are unaware of student parents' needs for support services or how
to provide them effectively.
This webinar, co-hosted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research(IWPR)
and Education Design Lab, will feature high-level updates from the Single Moms
Success Design Challenge and new IWPR research on supporting single mothers'
success in higher education. IWPR and Education Design Lab will share promising
strategies that institutions, communities, policymakers, and local agencies can
use to promote the success of single mother college students and their
families. IWPR will discuss findings from new research on coordinating across
early learning and higher education systems and partnerships between Head Start
and colleges and universities to support single mothers in college.
Supporting the economic mobility of single mothers requires connecting
systems at the local, state, and national levels. This webinar will share
opportunities to maximize benefits for families, colleges, and communities
through innovative cross-systems policy and practice.
November 20, 2019 2:00-3:00pm ET, Board Room 400 at the Downtown
Campus or the Forum (3-130) at the Brighton Campus. Please arrive a
few minutes early for a welcome from the MCC Team, members will also be
available after to answer questions.
Frisch, Julianna
President's Office
11/13/2019