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...raising a child while attending college is not as rare as it seems. Of the 20,000 students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, more than 800 have young children in their care, says Joanne R. Levinson, director of Amherst's Commuter Services and Housing Resource Center. Most student parents at Amherst live off-campus...
UMass-Amherst has many resources devoted to undergraduates with families. The school hosts dinners, brunches and information sessions and offers free child care, transportation and meals for participating parents and children. About half the participants in each program are undergraduates, says Levinson, who helped organize these efforts several years...
...addition to factoring family size into financial aid packages, UMass-Amherst provides additional tuition assistance for child care for undergraduates. Funding for this program is provided by a $2 fee paid by all students. According to Levinson, even more money may be set aside for child care by next fall...
...glad to help create similar programs in other schools," Levinson says, recognizing that the large amount of support Amherst offers to undergraduate parents is "highly unusual...
Indeed, this concert was a victory for Pro Arte and for soloist Levinson. Both deserve to be proud of themselves for delivering an enjoyable and thoroughly well-prepared performance