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Hot Topics, Compelling Issues and New Trends about Parent and Family Relations

  • Parents of first generation students

  • Parents of students of color

  • Mental health - facilities and support

  • Safety - residence hall and other living facilities, transportation, campus, emergency procedures

  • Confidentiality - how much can parents know while protecting the student

  • "Helicopter" parents - dealing with them, involving them in a positive way, recognizing they are not going to go away, helping student support staff understand the parents of today

  • Resources that can be provided to parents in areas such as student life, preparing parents for having a student in college, helping parents to prepare student for college, preparing parents for graduation

  • Obtaining grants for providing resources, like brochures that have been developed for parents in discussing alcohol use in college

  • Can student support staff educate the rest of the university (faculty, administrators) on dealing with parents?

  • Has informing parents of disciplinary action involving such areas as alcohol worked in decreasing problems?

  • What types of services are institutions providing to parents?

  • Institutional impact of FERPA when working with parents

  • Parental involvement with the rise in the Millennial student

  • Pre-college resources

  • How to manage parents seeking more involvement in academic arenas- course selection

  • Expectation of lots of help from university

  • Parents as sponsors for programs, events

  • Need for parent office- intentional plan to nurture parent constituency to improve student retention

  • Parents as partners for student success and parent satisfaction

  • Parents can promote positive relationship/image of university- give $ and time

  • Valuable feedback resource

  • Ways to engage parents via technology- Internet surveys, resources, information, event announcements

  • Engaging parents from other states, countries

New submissions for this section are always welcome!