Beyond Tuition: Funding for Campus Based Child Care for Student Parents

Though child care is a significant challenge for student parents, colleges often struggle to help them meet this need on campus, in large part because child care centers operate with thin margins. In the past two decades, the share of colleges offering care on campus has declined. By 2022 - in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, only 38 percent of public institutions and 7 percent of private non-profit institutions offered child care on campus.