Raising Up is a five-part docuseries investigating the barriers student parents face when pursuing higher education and the innovative leaders creating generational impact.

Nearly 4 million undergraduate students are raising children, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. A new initiative through Head Start is bringing affordable child care centers to campuses across the nation, including in Wisconsin. The “Kids on Campus” director joins us.

San Antonio College has a whole building designed for pupils who are much younger than the typical college student.

Nestled between modern academic buildings, the Head Start center provides free, federally funded child care programs designed to promote school readiness for infants, toddlers and preschoolers from low-income families.

Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate.

The Association of Community College Trustees and the National Head Start Association are partnering to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses.

The number of on-campus child-care centers has declined over the last 10 years, with the steepest declines taking place in the community-college sector.

There's nothing like a good match, and a partnership announced this week between the National Head Start Association and the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) to put more Head Start facilities on community college campuses sets up a perfect couple.