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05/12/2021
Tomorrow! Features UWGB faculty presenter.
Relations of Care Across and After Worlds UW ETHICS OF CARE INITIATIVE: Relations of Care Across and After WorldsVirtual Conference May 13-14, 2021Hosted online by University of Wisconsin-MadisonRegister HereQuestions of care—practices addressing the fundamentally interconnected needs, abilities, and responsibilities of embodied others a...
03/02/2021
If you are current UW faculty or staff who is also a caregiver, please take this short survey that will be used to continue our advocacy for caregivers during pandemic and beyond. Thank you so much in advance! https://m.facebook.com/WiWGSC/posts/2310908272376537
Caregiving Task Force Art credit: Rebecca Hayter, amplifier.org The WGSC is participating in a systemwide task force to advance research on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in higher education and develop ways to sustain and support caregivers across the UW System. The task force will determine key issues and concerns of...
09/12/2019
What we have been saying all along:
Colleges Could Do More To Help Student Parents Pay For Child Care, Watchdog Says More than 1 in 5 college students are raising kids, and access to child care is one of their biggest barriers. A new report finds many don't know they can apply for help from federal financial aid.
05/20/2019
Little support in U.S. for college students raising children There are nearly 4 million undergraduate students who are raising children, representing 22 percent of all students attending U.S. colleges. Yet only about 8 percent of single mothers in college will obtain associate's or bachelor's degrees within six years, while half of women without children fini...
04/05/2019
The Very Busy-Trying-to-Figure-Out-How-to-Pay-For-Child-Care Spider Early one morning the wind blew a spider across the field. A thin, silky thread trailed from her body. The spider landed on a fence post near a far...
07/18/2017
We need to provide more child-care support for parents in college (essay) We must provide more financial support for parents struggling to afford child care, and that must include student parents working toward a credential or degree, argues Sarah Labadie.
12/16/2016
If you need some extra time to study for finals, don't forget about our Fun Packs! Help keep your child entertained while you work on finishing the semester strong. You can do it!
Check out a Fun Pack in the library!
It can be tricky to maneuver parenting with the extra studying, group projects, and paper-writing demands to wrap the semester. What are some tools and techniques you use to make it through? Let us know in the comments below!
12/08/2016
""We need bigger solutions to these problems," says Gault. "These rules and restrictions in a way just exemplify how little we're thinking about the educational needs of parents.""
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/05/501477512/for-college-students-with-kids-getting-cheap-child-care-is-a-challenge?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202805
For College Students With Kids, Getting Cheap Child Care Is A Challenge Here's how difficult it is for students with children to get access to federal money for child care.
Happy Thursday everyone! Hope to see you wearing your green pins today.
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