Student-parents compose a significant proportion of the student population at community colleges across the United States and Canada. The conflicting demands they face as they navigate academic, financial, and family responsibilities are considerable. Drawing on interviews with student-parents and administrators at two community colleges, we focus on the extent to which student-parents were able to access campus-based resources that would facilitate their persistence. Our analytical approach illuminates the organizational obstacles that student-parents contended with in light of campus environments that operate in a care-blind manner and the role that institutional agents played in helping a small group of participants navigate these obstacles.

中文翻译：

---

超越儿童保育的思考：支持社区大学学生家长

在美国和加拿大的社区学院，学生家长占学生人数的很大一部分。他们在承担学术、财务和家庭责任时面临的相互矛盾的要求是相当大的。通过对两所社区学院的学生家长和管理人员的采访，我们关注学生家长能够在多大程度上访问校园资源，以促进他们的坚持。我们的分析方法阐明了学生家长所面临的组织障碍，因为校园环境以盲目的方式运作，以及机构代理人在帮助一小群参与者克服这些障碍方面所扮演的角色。