California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will provide students with dependents at California’s public universities with more access to child care information and financial support starting in January 2026.
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Students with Dependents Program expands support for student parents
Cal Poly has about 110 students with dependents, including spring graduates.
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Cal Poly Students with Dependents hosts “Bring Your Kid to College Day”
The Cal Poly Students with Dependents program held its first-ever “Bring Your Kid to College Day” on Thursday at the Plant Conservatory. A spin on the classic, “Bring Your Child to Work Day,” students, faculty, and staff were encouraged to bring their families to meet others in the Cal Poly community.
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Torn between two worlds: What it is like being a parent and a full-time student at Cal Poly
English junior Holley Hochman wakes up as the sun rises at 5:40 a.m. but before she can prepare for her own day as a student, she must first prepare for her own kids. She gets ready and makes lunches for her four children between the ages of 5 and 13. They all shuffle into the […]
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The invisible work of students with dependents
I made a deliberate decision not to share my status as a student-parent when I first enrolled at Cal Poly. I was already overwhelmed by navigating this institution as a first-generation, low-income woman of color. I did not need another marker of diversity — another potential source of bias — as a part of my identity.
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College is hard, raising kids in college is even harder
Work and class is not all these students must schedule their lives around, they also think of their children.