Education

Parenting Students at For-Profits Face the Highest Rates of Homelessness

From New America: “Private for-profit colleges enroll about 20 percent of all undergraduate student parents, according to an analysis of 2020 NPSAS data by the SPARK Collaborative. In contrast, only 5% of all undergraduates attend for-profit institutions, according to NCES. Despite enrolling a disproportionately high share of parenting students, for-profit colleges offer fewer of the basic needs supports, such as housing assistance or child care referrals, that are more common at public and nonprofit colleges. This lack of investment has consequences for the disproportionate share of parenting students who experience homelessness while enrolled at for-profit colleges, according to nationally representative data from the Department of Education.”

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