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Colleges Welcome Parent Groups
By Deborah Williams
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A recent Education Week blog post describes an emerging trend that uses the talents and interests of their students’ parents. The post acknowledges that today’s college students are the children of parents who have been continuously focused and involved in every aspect of their children’s lives and educations; they have used all of their resources to provide as many trips, sports, activities, and supplemental education that often included finding a tutor to remediate and/or prevent weaknesses.
Colleges realize that many of them continue to be involved, and they want to leverage that desire by inviting them to participate in specially formed parent boards. These parents are seen as a rich fundraising group that also can assist with internships and recruiting of new students. These colleges also comply with these parents’ need to have information about “financial aid, graduation rates, and job placement.”
Despite this new trend, the blog writer, Caralee Adams, referred to a piece written in the Chronicle of Higher Education, that suggests that colleges should balance this trend with “the need to maintain policies of privacy that allow students to fight their own battles with grades and disciplinary issues so they can emerge from college as adults ready for the real world.”
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