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Insights & Tips for Considering A Gap Year

We often discuss the types of productive conversations parents can have with their children.  We spend enormous time and energy discussing where students should attend college and the importance of “fit” for students and their families. College Parents of America long-held position is to suggest all families explore not just where your student wants to […]

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Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network

College students are moving in for the new school year, but some parents may not be emotionally ready for it. On August 31, 2011 Vicky Nelson, Editor of College Parents of America, talks to Joy Cardin, Ideas Network on Wisconsin Public Radio about the role of the parent, whether "helicopter parenting" is a good idea and how to deal with the empty nest when kids move out.  Listen to the interview:
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Suggested Media: Will loan forgiveness offer long-term student debt solution? (PBS News Hour)

   GWEN IFILL: Americans are now carrying student loan debt of over $1 trillion, $125 billion of it added just in the first three months of this year...So what, if anything, could this approach do to help ease the growing problem of student loan debt?For that, we turn to Deanne Loonin, who leads the student borrower program at the National Consumer Law Center. And Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
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Parental Anxiety Plummets Amid Reduced 2021 COVID Risks

College Back-to-School Spending Increases
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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.