{"id":3063,"date":"2019-04-02T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:55:18","slug":"new-effort-underway-to-support-single-moms-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/04\/02\/new-effort-underway-to-support-single-moms-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort Underway to Support Single Moms in College"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3064\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3064\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/single-moms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/single-moms.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/single-moms-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new effort to raise graduation rates for single moms enrolled in community college is officially underway.<\/p>\n<p>Single moms are among the fastest growing populations on college campuses \u2013 more than 11 percent of college students \u2013 but only 28 percent of single moms <a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/07\/report-more-single-moms-pursuing-higher-ed\/\">graduate within six years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former second lady Jill Biden announced the Community College Women Succeed initiative in late February. The initiative will start with regional roundtables, actually talking with these single mothers, and building a support system from there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t one thing that\u2019s going to suddenly make balancing work and childcare and education and pursuing your career simple,\u201d Biden said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/02\/22\/new-initiative-help-single-moms-succeed-community-colleges\">her announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for the women who are willing to give their all, who are willing to fight for the futures they want and deserve, we can do more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new effort to raise graduation rates for single moms enrolled in community college is officially underway. Single moms are among the fastest growing populations on college campuses \u2013 more than 11 percent of college students \u2013 but only 28 percent of single moms graduate within six years. Former second lady Jill Biden announced the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/04\/02\/new-effort-underway-to-support-single-moms-in-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Effort Underway to Support Single Moms in College<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-completion"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}