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Perspectives on Student Parents Panel at the Northeastern Educational Research Association Conference

If you are at the Northeastern Educational Research Association conference in Trumbull, CT, check out the panel at 3:00 PM Wednesday, October 9, “Perspectives on Student Parents.” This will be a conversation on supporting parenting students in higher education, featuring a panel of national experts who offer strategies to create family-friendly campuses that provide better support systems. Speakers include Dr. Brittani Williams, a former parenting student and Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research at Generation Hope; Miriam Cullimore, Student-Parent and Family Coordinator at Minnesota’s Office of Higher Education; and Megan Brown, current parenting student and neuroscience major at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Haley Myers Dillon, Assistant Vice President for Retention Programs & Cultural Academic Resource Centers at California State University, Sacramento.