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Connecting With Your College Student By Phone – Maximizing Opportunities

June 19, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
You’ve made the phone conversations with your student routine. You’re ready to listen, and you’re prepared to listen to her college adventures and share something about life at home. But sometimes the conversation just doesn’t flow. How can you encourage...

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Connecting With Your College Student By Phone – Getting Started

June 17, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Regular phone conversations with your college student are a great way to stay in touch with what is happening in your student’s life – and for her to stay in touch with life at home. Even if you keep up with each other via e-mail, Facebook, or some other electronic medium,...

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College Professors Are People Too!

June 12, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As a college parent, you may wonder about the people at college with whom your student spends much of her time. Who will her classmates be? Who will her friends be? Who will her roommates or suitemates be? Who will her coworkers be?

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What FERPA Means for You and Your College Student

June 9, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (sometimes referred to as the Buckley Amendment) was designed to protect the privacy of educational records and to establish the rights of students to inspect and review their educational records. It also provided...

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Legislation for Campus Safety: Reassurance for Parents of College Students

June 3, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As college parents, one of our major concerns when our student heads off to college may be her safety. We want our student to do well academically, we want her to be healthy, we want her to be happy, but first and foremost, we want her to be safe. The safety of...

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Alternatives to Having a Car on Campus

June 1, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Many colleges prohibit first-year students from bringing cars, but at some point during the college years, your student may want to consider whether or not to take a car to school.

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Helping Your College Student Select a Meal Plan

May 29, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
If your college student will be living on campus, one of the decisions she may need to make is choosing a meal plan. The policies and options for meal plans vary from school to school. They are often mandatory for resident students and may be offered as an...

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College Students and Credit Cards – Some Statistics

May 27, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
This article attempts to give an overview of student credit card use by presenting some statistics taken from Sallie Mae’s National Study of Usage Rates and Trends of Undergraduate Student Credit Card Use released in April 2009.

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What Is a College Articulation Agreement?

May 15, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
If your child is beginning college at a community college or other two year institution, you may hear college officials talk about having an Articulation Agreement with one or more four year institutions. An Articulation Agreement is an officially approved agreement...

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What Should My College Student Consider When Choosing a Schedule of Classes?

May 14, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
One very important task that each college student faces each semester is choosing his classes for the next semester. It is exciting for students to consider the wide array of classes from which they may choose, but also intimidating to consider the implications of...

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