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Help! My College Student Wants to Drop Out of College!

December 17, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As a parent of a college student, you may be taken completely by surprise when your student comes home to announce that he wants to drop out of college. Or it is possible that you have seen this coming for a few weeks or even months. Either way, it may be...

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Communicating With Your College Student: Are You Listening?

December 15, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
When your child leaves home to head for college, you worry about losing contact with her. If she will be living at college, and perhaps not returning home for several weeks or months, you worry. However, it is possible that, with some effort on your part, your...

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Helping Your College Student “Supersize” His College Experiences

December 13, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Is your college student taking full advantage of his opportunities in college? As with so many things during the college years, students struggle to find balance in many areas of their lives. They face many challenges, opportunities, and growing responsibilities...

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Need to Talk To Your College Student? Choose Your Time and Place Carefully

December 10, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Communication with your college student is a crucial topic for college parents. Sometimes we’re better at it than others. You might enhance your chances of a good conversation – or doom it – simply by choosing your time and place carefully. Of course,...

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THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE IS MAKE-OR-BREAK TIME

December 9, 2009 - College Parents of America
Can you recall the run-up to the birth of your first child, and how so much attention was focused on the expectations related to the act of birth itself?And then how you and your spouse returned from the hospital and had to change diapers, prepare warm bottles, and man the...

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Ten Parental Habits That Can Negatively Affect Your College Student

December 8, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central

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What to Do If Your College Student Is on Academic Probation

November 29, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
No college student heads off to college with the plan to be placed on academic probation and face potential dismissal. Few parents, when they drop their student off for college in September, expect that their student will struggle to the point of being placed on...

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Is Your College Student Academically At-Risk?

November 17, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Colleges and universities want their students to succeed. Whether the institution is a highly selective ivy-league college or an open enrollment community college, schools want to see their students accomplish their goals. Unfortunately, not all students enter...

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Why College Parents Might Be Interested in NSSE

November 15, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Are you familiar with NSSE (pronounced “Nessie”)? As a college parent, you may have looked at some NSSE results when your student was choosing a college. Or you may have heard from your college student that he has filled out a NSSE survey at his current school....

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DOES COLLEGE SAVING DRIVE COLLEGE GOING?

November 9, 2009 - College Parents of America
Life is full of chicken and egg questions, so it should come as no surprise that college financing is too.One of those questions hit me head on last week here in Washington, DC, as I participated in a discussion on college savings initiatives hosted by the New America...

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