Research Symposium

BIO

Auva is a Sophomore Behavioral Neuroscience Major at FSU hoping to graduate in Spring 2028. She hopes to pursue medicine and excel in the medical field as a dermatologist. Auva is from Orlando, Florida. She is very passionate about psychology and is working on pursuing more research in psychology.

Bridging Academics & Parenthood: A Data-Informed Support Program for FSU Student Parents

Abstract

My research question revolves around the idea of whether student parents, on FSU
campus, have all the resources they need to succeed and have an equal opportunity as
every other student. My mentor, my partner, and I came up with a series of
questions to put into a survey to send out to over 300 individuals who have recently signed
up for any childcare resource on campus. These questions include such as what year they
are, how many children they have, and if they have used any childcare resources on
campus. Our goal for this survey is to obtain important information that can help us come
up with a plan of action to bring to FSU’s attention that these students need more
resources. Our research team also came up with a google spreadsheet of resources that
are not as well known that can be useful for student parents. We provided their number,
location, and what service they can provide for student parents. We did not get as many
expected results back so we are doing another round of surveys to more individuals to
hopefully get more responses. Our data shows that student parents are more likely to be
grad students with children under the age of 10 who are using some sort of childcare
assistance whether it is food stamps or daycare. The significance of our
project is to bring light to the large population of student parents and make FSU a more
successful and adoptable college for student parents.

Keywords: Child care, Student Parents