Feb 27, 2019 | Article, Cost of College, Insurance, Living Independently, student loans, Student Success
The Importance of Insurance for Your Student As your baby birds begin to leave the nest, there are always a few things that us college parents are concerned about. Did I teach them enough? Can they really do their own laundry? Do they even know how to make rice? Take...
Jun 21, 2018 | Article, Cost of College, Financial Literacy, Paying for College, student loans
According to a recent article by Policy Genius, “The cost of college has skyrocketed over the last decade, resulting in $1.4 trillion of outstanding student loan debt. But college grads aren’t the only ones on the hook for their balances. Per student debt...
Oct 12, 2016 | Article, Campus Safety, Completing, Financial Literacy, Insurance, Living Independently, Preparing, Research & Advocacy, Transitioning
Part of our work at College Parents of America is to complete research work that helped identify trends important to college families. This summer our interns helped identify a trend where a growing number of state insurance commissioners recommend the purchase of...
Aug 14, 2016 | Article, Campus Safety, Completing, Financial Literacy, First Weeks of College, Preparing, Transitioning
College students are heading back to school, many with the help of their parents who have invested thousands of dollars in laptops, smartphones, bicycles and textbooks on students’ packing lists. Consider this – how will your student and family replace these...
May 29, 2016 | Article, Preparing, Transitioning
If you are like many families, May and June bring a critical time period when students select their housing preferences. Student move-in begins in early August at some colleges (and is rapidly approaching elsewhere). Many more students are moving into...
Sep 6, 2013 | Article, Completing, Preparing, Transitioning
Sep. 6, 2013 – BOSTON — College students are heading back to school this month and they’re bringing a lot of stuff with them. In 2012, the average student spent $907.22 on back to college shopping*. With laptops, smartphones, bicycles and textbooks on...
Sep 23, 2010 | Article, Preparing, Research & Advocacy
When I learned recently that identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S., I decided to visit the U.S. Department of Justice Web site to learn more.I expected to see the usual: tips to reduce or minimize the risk of becoming an identity theft...
Jun 17, 2010 | Article, Research & Advocacy, Transitioning
In 2010, College Parents of America launched the first nationally available form of tuition insurance for college students and their families. In partnership with GradGuard, a service of Next Generation Insurance Group LLC, we began offering tuition refund insurance...
May 26, 2010 | Article, Transitioning
Everyone knows that college is expensive. Yet very few people know that the cost of college can be insured.The high cost of college has been building for decades. Withering subsidies at the state level are causing public universities to raise the sticker prices they...
Apr 22, 2010 | Article, Research & Advocacy
In previous years, around this time in April, I’ve communicated to college parents about the “gap” that a graduating senior, or student taking a year off from school, would likely face in his or her health insurance, between the time of college graduation or end of...
