“Caring Students’ Rights” is a student-led research project that documents the reality of university students in Chile who combine studying and caregiving responsibilities. Using qualitative research and thematic analysis, we explore how student-parents and other student caregivers navigate university life, institutional rules and the wider care crisis. To our knowledge, this is the first study that systematically makes this reality visible in Chile. Our findings have already been published in a public policy journal focused on fertility and care in Chile, and we are currently submitting an extended version to a peer-reviewed sociology journal to keep sharing these results. We also presented the project at an academic conference hosted by a Chilean university, with dozens of attendees including students, faculty, authorities and researchers from different organisations and universities. There, our work was recognised as one of the best research projects on public policy and parenting/care, which encourages us to continue making our findings public and advocating for change in higher education.