How Eviction Derails Parents in College and Ways to Change that Reality:

Rooms 1035-1055, 1st Floor

Based on collaborative work between Princeton Eviction Lab and New America’s Parenting Student Initiative, this session walks through why parenting students are such a critical population in higher education today, why housing security is vital to their success, and how lessons from parenting students can be applied to all students facing basic needs insecurity. We will explore who parenting students are as a group, what the data we have shows about how harmful eviction and housing insecurity is for parenting students’ success in college, and the cross-sector work needed to help change this narrative. Attendees will leave with new knowledge, ways to think about cross sector partnerships, and hopefully be inspired to work on local housing solutions to help parenting students succeed.

Presenter

Eddy Conroy is a senior policy manager on the higher education policy team at New America. Conroy’s work focuses on improving higher education policy on accountability, financial aid, basic needs support for students and ways to enhance access to higher education for older students, in particular, college students with children  

Conroy’s expertise on various higher education issues has been featured in The Washington Post, New York Times, ProPublica, CNBC, Inside Higher Ed, Hechinger Report, Higher Ed Dive, Diverse, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. 

A former financial aid administrator, Conroy previously held multiple roles spanning research and technical assistance, policy communications, and direct student service, at The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, UCLA, and Vanguard University of Southern California. 

Conroy was fortunate to have attended tuition-free public institutions in Scotland, where he received a master’s in political science and a doctorate in higher education from the University of Glasgow