Oct 9, 2020 | Article, Completing
It’s not exactly a newsflash that one of the many ways that U.S.-based businesses are gaining productivity – and saving money – is through outsourcing of certain functions. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some colleges and universities, in searching for ways...
Oct 7, 2020 | Article, Campus Safety, College Preparation, College Tips, Completing, Preparing, Research & Advocacy, Resources
While your child may be eager to visit colleges to check out the dorms, the study and athletic facilities, the food and the social atmosphere, what shouldn’t be overlooked is the level of security provided on campus. Most high school students would not rate this...
Sep 29, 2020 | Article, College Preparation, Completing, Parenting, Preparing, Student Success
At College Parents of America, we strive to provide valuable resource information to our members, as well as vigorous advocacy. While many of my recent columns have centered around some of the key advocacy issues that we are focusing on – to serve you – here in...
Sep 28, 2020 | Article, College Preparation, Completing, Cost of College, Financial Literacy, Living Independently, Paying for College, Preparing, Resources, student loans
Dear Parents: When your students leave home for college, they will face a host of new experiences and responsibilities. As a parent, you recognize that now they will be “on their own” to tackle life’s basic functions – while simultaneously...
Sep 21, 2020 | Article, Completing
What is the Higher Education Act and, more importantly, why should you care about it’s reauthorization? The answers to those questions are fundamental to your membership in College Parents of America. The Higher Education Act, which originally was passed by the...
Sep 14, 2020 | Article, Completing, Cost of College, Financial Literacy, Paying for College, Research & Advocacy
Last week, in this column, I wrote about the upcoming “road to reauthorization” for the Higher Education Act, certain provisions of which are already being considered in the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Boehner of Ohio. In...
Dec 26, 2017 | Article, Humor
‘Twas the week after Christmas, when all through the house Not a student home from college was stirring, not an iPad nor mouse; The dirty clothing was flung in the mudroom with care, In hopes that Mom, the laundress, soon would be there; The younger siblings...
Dec 22, 2017 | Article, Humor
Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the house College applications were stirring, waiting the click of a mouse; The essays were done, saved as word docs with care, In hopes that high SAT scores soon would be there; The 12th-graders were nestled all snug...
Dec 16, 2017 | Article, Parenting
For current college parents, the twelve days of Christmas don’t end with a partridge and a pear tree. In fact, the year-end holidays don’t seem to end at all. Increasingly, colleges and universities are scheduling longer and longer periods of time between...
Dec 22, 2016 | Article, Parenting
For current college parents, the twelve days of Christmas don’t end with a partridge and a pear tree. In fact, the year-end holidays don’t seem to end at all. Increasingly, colleges and universities are scheduling longer and longer periods of time between...
