Dec 11, 2020 | Article, Preparing
While many of you were catching up on your pleasure reading over the recent holidays, I took a different route. Call me a martyr, but one of the many higher-ed-related tomes I tackled by the fire on those dark late December nights was Tuition Rising: Why College Costs...
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 15, 2017 | Article, Humor, Parenting
The seventh comic in the College Parents of America Humor series is now available on Collegeparents.org. This comic, which was produced by College Parents of America and Hector Curriel, demonstrates how the first year of college can change family dynamics and,...
