The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (The Alliance) collaborates with partners across the state to empower the 3.9 million California parents with a high school education but no college degree to fulfill their postsecondary and career goals. Supporting this crucial demographic, the majority of whom are people of color, will not only help close persistent racial equity gaps in college and the workplace, but also create a multiplier effect that will improve the livelihoods of future generations and build a more prosperous California.
Achieving this vision hinges on generating actionable data to inform effective policies and practices that truly support student parents and their families. To guide this effort, The Alliance developed a multiyear research agenda that aligns with its policy agenda’s five core strategies: strengthening financial aid, expanding access to child care, meeting the housing needs of student parents and their families, promoting family-serving institutions, and improving data practices. The goals of the research agenda are to:
Explore The Alliance’s research agenda to help bring this vision to life. By investigating the critical questions, researchers and advocates can catalyze collective action and shape policies and practices that close equity gaps and create pathways to economic mobility for generations to come.
As part of executing this research agenda, we hosted a webinar to share key findings from our two new publications on October 1, 2024. Inside Higher Ed published an article that also discussed highlights from these two reports on October 9, 2024.
