1st Edition
Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant and Parenting College Students Contemporary Understandings of Title IX
1. Introduction: The Growing Momentum to Protect Pregnant and Parenting College Students
Catherine L. Riley
2. Motherhood, Parenting, and Academia: Changing the Cultural Landscape of Higher Education
Summer R. Cunningham
3. Laboring for the Change Pregnant and Parenting Scholars Need Most: A Birth Plan
Katie B. Garner
4. Unexcused Absence: The System-Wide Invisibility of Pregnant and Parenting College Students
Jessica L. Nare and Monica J. Casper
5. The Untold Stories of Student-Fathers’ Struggles
A. Tomás Hernandez Jr. & Cindy Nhung Phu
6. Missed Realities About Miscarriage in Academia
Grace Ellen Brannon & Catherine L. Riley
7. Making Room for Every-Body: Changing Policy for Pregnant and Parenting Students at a U.S. College Abroad
Ana Belén Amil & Ruth Gazsó Candlish
8. Nurturing Equity and Access: Compassion in Action for Parenting Graduate Students
Jessica A. Leveto
9. Agencies of Change: The Shared Work of Transforming Colleges into Supportive Spaces
A. Fiona Pearson and Erika Lynn Dawson Head
10. Epilogue: Defending Students and Families by Removing Coercion from Academia
Catherine L. Riley
Biography
Catherine L. Riley, PhD, is a former university professor and the owner of Supportive Space Consulting, LLC. This is her second book and was produced while parenting three young children and delivering her fourth child.
Katie B. Garner, PhD, is the Executive Director of the International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship. Her publications span academic presses and mainstream outlets. Katie is the mother of three children.
