Aspen Postsecondary Success for Parents

Supporting student parent mental health is an integral component of increasing postsecondary completion. Ascend and the Jed Foundation (JED) are partn...
BlogAugust 17, 2020
“Not even this COVID-19 is going to stop me.” That’s what Monisha texted back to her PelotonU coach in mid-March just days after we’d updated ...
BlogAugust 17, 2020
These last few months have been painful and emotional for all of us. We watched as another Black man was killed, a Black woman’s murder continue...
BlogAugust 13, 2020
Although today’s circumstances are abnormally challenging, students’ lives have always been complex, even more so for students who are parents. At...
BlogAugust 13, 2020
When I was attending the College of William & Mary as a teen mother, I was an anomaly. Not only because I was one of a very small group of Black s...
BlogAugust 12, 2020
In the 20 years I have been with the University of Minnesota’s Student Parent HELP Center (SPHC), I have never experienced anything like the paralle...
BlogAugust 12, 2020