Blog posts tagged with "completion"

  • What Might Jeopardize My College Student’s Financial Aid?
    January 5, 2012

    College is expensive, there’s no argument there.  Many families rely on financial aid to make college a possibility.  For most families, that financial aid package contains a combination of scholarships, grants, loans, and possible work-study for their student.  So you’ve received your financial aid package (which never seems enough, but it helps) and your student has headed off to college.  You’re all set.

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  • College Commencement’s Coming: Is Your Student Ready?
    March 24, 2011

    Congratulations!  Your college student has worked hard, you’ve stood by and supported him, and he’s almost made it to the finish line.  Commencement is around the corner.  But what if he’s almost there, but not quite?  Does that mean that participating in graduation ceremonies is out of the question?  Or that he’ll need to wait another year?  The answer is – that depends. 

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  • The Path To Graduation: The Fast Track
    February 24, 2011

    Increasingly these days, many students are taking longer than four years to complete their undergraduate degree.  In addition to those students who may take longer than the traditional four years to complete their degree, however,  there are a growing number of students who may decide to attempt to complete their college education in less than four years.

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  • How the College Career Office Can Help Your College Student
    February 9, 2011

    Almost every college or university has an office dedicated to helping students find a career in which they are interested and to getting a job after college.  Whether the office is called the Career Center, Career Services Office, Career Placement Office, or some other variation of the title, the function is similar everywhere.  The variety of services offered by these offices is usually wide-ranging.  Unfortunately, many students think of the Career Office as a place they should visit during that last semester of senior year as graduation looms and they realize that they won

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  • Ten Factors in Student Success
    August 26, 2010

    College Parents of America operates with a premise that every student wants to succeed.  We also believe that part of your role as a parent is to help your student to succeed frequently as the school year begins, and to aid him or her in attaining a higher level of performance throughout the academic year.

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  • This Year’s Health Insurance Coverage Gap
    May 13, 2010

    Thanks to the passage of health care reform, a record number of 3.2M college students will have the ability to remain on – or re-enroll in – their parent’s health care plan when they graduate this Spring.

    Without question, this is a positive development for both parents and graduating college students. However, there are many nuances to the coverage provisions, according to Bill Suneson, president, Next Generation Insurance (NGI) Group, which operates GradGuard.com a specialist in “right-fit” insurance for college students and insurance for new graduates.

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