Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Contemporary Understandings of Title IX (Routledge Research in Higher Education)

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 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 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 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 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 10 Epilogue: Defending Students and Families by Removing Coercion from Academia Bibliography Index This volume brings together interdisciplinary research, theoretical perspectives, and detailed explanations of examples to help colleges become supportive spaces for pregnant and parenting students.Expanding the discourse around pregnant and parenting college students to a more interdisciplinary and international arena, this volume follows the ground-breaking monograph Title IX and the Protection of Pregnant and Parenting College Students (Riley, Hutchinson, Dix 2022). The present volume defines this cohesive field and brings together separate voices to help colleges become supportive spaces. The chapters explore academia’s attitude toward motherhood, families, and carework, the invisibility of pregnant and parenting students, system-wide negligence, the forgotten nature of student-fathers, unacknowledged miscarriages, organized policy change efforts, involved agencies of change, the troubling presence of coercion, and more. While arguing that barriers currently prevent colleges from becoming supportive spaces, the volume asserts that improvements are both feasible and vital for ensuring that institutions of higher education are complying with Title IX, a U.S. federal law.Offering interdisciplinary research, explanations of problems, and paths for progress, this edited volume will be useful to scholars, researchers, administrators, and activists working to support pregnant and parenting students. Various chapters will also interest those working in higher education administration, education policy, reproductive health, gender studies, and health and organizational communication more broadly. Supporting pregnant and parenting college students, however, is a shared responsibility belonging to all members of a campus community; accordingly, this volume is for every institution that plans to comply with Title IX.