Supporting Friends and Partners During Tough Times
Tactics for Navigating Tough Situations with Partners and Friends
Humor: Completing the FAFSA Comic
The fourteenth comic in the College Parents of America Humor series is now available on Collegeparents.org. This comic, a co-creation of College Parents of America and Hector Curriel, focuses on the pain that parents feel when looking at the result of FAFSA's expected family contribution calculation.
Tuition protection
Parents, worried that the check they wrote for $5,000 — or likely more — to cover this fall’s college tuition and room and board is akin to gambling, now have a safeguard against potential losses if things don’t work out.It is called tuition insurance, and it typically allows parents to recover some of their money if their child becomes sick or gets injured and has to withdraw from school. In some cases, policies kick in if, for example, there is a death in the family.
Schools Should Prove and Demonstrate Financial Accountability
Not only should all colleges and universities - public and private - be financially accountable, they should also be to prove that accountability and to demonstrate it to all of their constituencies, including their parents.Several groups specializing in academic finances are advising higher-ed institutions to adopt provisions that mirror those targeted at publicly traded corporations in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the federal law that was designed to better police corporate governance.
