| Description |
1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Higher Education Series |
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Routledge Research in Higher Education Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Growing Momentum to Protect Pregnant and Parenting College Students -- Building Momentum to Protect Pregnant and Parenting Students -- The Need for This Volume and More -- Preview of Chapters -- 2 Motherhood, Parenting, and Academia: Changing the Cultural Landscape of Higher Education -- Motherhood in Contemporary U.S. Culture -- Academia, a Mother-Free Space |
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Shifting the Mother-Free Academic Culture to a Mother-Inclusive Culture -- Conclusion: Higher Education Is an Opportunity for Mothers and Mothers Are an Opportunity for Higher Education -- 3 Laboring for the Change Pregnant and Parenting Scholars Need Most: A Birth Plan -- Context: The Problem With Too Many Names -- A Birth Plan Checklist -- The LDR (Labor and Delivery Room): Ensuring Support When Things Go Wrong -- Midwifing a Movement for Mother-Scholars at IAMAS -- Conclusion -- 4 Unexcused Absence: The System-Wide Invisibility of Pregnant and Parenting College Students -- Introduction |
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Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks -- Data Analysis and Discussion -- Making Pregnant and Parenting Students Visible -- Conclusion -- 5 The Untold Stories of Student-Fathers' Struggles -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Portraits of Parents -- Recommendations for Institutions of Postsecondary Education -- 6 Missed Realities About Miscarriage in Academia -- Miscarriage Among the College Student Population -- Effects of Miscarriage on a Woman -- Importance of Support -- Recommendations |
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7 Making Room for Every-Body: Changing Policy for Pregnant and Parenting Students at a U.S. College Abroad -- Our Story of Policy Change: From Silos to Systems -- Diagnosing the Need for Change -- Organizing for Change: Our Journey to Policy Approval -- Delivering the Change: A New and Reworked Policy System -- Implementing Change: Approval and Uptake -- Learning From Change -- 8 Nurturing Equity and Access: Compassion in Action for Parenting Graduate Students -- Introduction -- Positionality: Mother, Academic, Advocate -- Methodology -- Analysis |
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Results: Parenting Graduate Student Challenges and Barriers -- Challenges and Barriers in Context -- Policies and Practices -- Exacerbated Challenges -- Policy and Practices for Access and Equity -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 9 Agencies of Change: The Shared Work of Transforming Colleges into Supportive Spaces -- Background-Pregnant Silences -- Title IX at 50 -- Transforming Federal Agencies and Offices -- Transforming Colleges -- Transforming Organizations and Local Agencies -- Moving Forward and Final Considerations |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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10 Epilogue: Defending Students and Families by Removing Coercion from Academia |
| Subject |
United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX.
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| SUBJECT |
Education Amendments of 1972 (United States) fast (OCoLC)fst01361245 |
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College students as parents -- United States
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Pregnant college students -- United States
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Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States
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Higher education and state -- United States
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College students as parents.
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Higher education and state.
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Pregnant college students.
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Sex discrimination in higher education.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garner, Katie B. B
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| ISBN |
9781003818441 |
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1003818447 |
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