Hoverings

While it's natural to worry about your student's safety when she is away at school, you can help her be prepared and knowledgeable by downloading the College Parents of America Campus Security Checklist and reviewing campus resources available to your student.

We have a continuing theme regarding the first year experience of college students that we are exploring. 

Most families we speak with share with us the anxiety about this transition.   The reality is that families of new college students recognize that the transition to college is a BIG deal.   The transition is a major life event for both students and the family. 

Our last post reported research by UCLA - that about 25% of freshmen students do not progress successfully to become sophomores. 

Parents worry about their students in many ways.  We are worried about having the money to support their student, we worry about the risks that may interefere with the investment they make in college, we worry about the academic progress their student makes towards graduation and probably most frequnetly we worry about the health and well being of their college student.  

What may surprize some families is how interconnected the health of their student is to their progress towards graduation.