Higher Education Alliance For Residential Single Parent Programs

MISSION STATEMENT

The Higher Education Alliance of Residential Single Parent Programs (HEARSPP) is a coalition of colleges and universities that offer residential degree programs for single parents. The Alliance seeks to support member institutions as they provide social and academic opportunities to single parents in their pursuit of higher education. It also promotes national awareness through networking, education, and advocacy.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Facilitate communication and networking among professionals who support student parents at each institution. Establish network for problem solving and goal setting. Share and develop policies and programs among member institutions such as recruitment strategies, funding approaches, procedures for daily operations, and program staffing. Develop a national center for single parent education to take advantage of our “strength in numbers,” giving us the ability to address groups for social change, to work toward national recognition of single parent programs, and to advocate for additional programs throughout the country using our combined research. Develop and provide additional resources for single parents and their children. Organize yearly meetings at member institutions to provide professional development and continuing education opportunities for professionals who support student parents.



Wilson College Women's Colleges Try New Strategies for Success In search of revenue, they welcome adults. Some even succeed without men. Brinita Ricks, a Wilson College senior, is in many ways exactly the kind of student that women's liberal-arts colleges have always said they exist to serve. She's majoring in math and computing—disciplines that men have traditionally dominated—and she's president of the math club at Wilson, where all the student leaders are women. She hopes to go on and earn a graduate degree in math, maybe even a Ph.D. College of Saint Mary Rooming with Your Child Walsh Hall is the center of activity at the College of Saint Mary, a Roman Catholic women’s institution in Omaha, Neb. Among its many uses, the building houses faculty and administration offices, computer labs, a chapel and an art gallery. Its upstairs residents, however, are what makes Walsh Hall unusual: it is home to 31 single mothers and their children. Misericordia University The Women With Children Program The Women With Children Program is designed for academically qualified single mothers of all ages, providing them with the opportunity to attend classes while living on the Misericordia campus, with their children. Endicott College A Graduation Success Story at Endicott College in Beverly After moving to Arizona with her family when she was 16, Jessica Rockowitz had no plans to return to Massachusetts. Then she heard about the Keys to Degrees Program at Endicott College in Beverly. Bonding on Campus A manda Lapierre, 21, and Meghann Martino, 22, are good friends and college roommates. But that's not all; they're both single parents of toddlers. The Oprah Magazine highlights Single Parent Program in the March 2008 edition with article entitled "Head of the Class," found on page 64. Good Morning America Profiles Endicott Program The Keys to Degrees program at Endicott College was a feature news segment on the ABC News morning show. The program assists young, single parents and their children to live on campus and to attend the College. story and video Carrying a Toddler with His Course Load The Keys to Degrees Program is the front page feature story in the City & Region section of the Boston Globe on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.

MISSION STATEMENT

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Wilson College

College of Saint Mary

Misericordia University

Endicott College