Seminars Featuring Students Moving Into College Life Popular With Parents
It’s not uncommon for colleges and universities to welcome freshmen students to campus through orientations. These offerings provide students with information about resources on grants for going back to school, campus resources, organizations, activities and more. Many colleges and universities might even offer webcast orientations to help familiarize distance learning students with what they have to offer online and on campus.
It’s back to college for parents, as well. Many adults are returning to school as a means of keeping their jobs, as well as training for new occupations, reports show. Adult enrollments are part of the reason colleges and universities are experiencing record numbers of students.
But there are parents who spend time on college and university campuses for an altogether different reason. In addition to meeting with professors, some parents are sleeping in dorms and eating in dining halls, according to a news report about on line degrees. These parents are familiarizing themselves with campuses as part of orientations designed especially for them.
College and university orientations in some instances take place over the course of two to three days. At a university in Boston, Mass., a representative recently provided the Boston Globe with insight into the popularity of its orientation program. The parents of some 85 to 90 percent of students from that college participate in these orientations, according to an article about distance learning course reported.
While they might involve fees, orientations for parents often include seminars that parents might find helpful. A common seminar focus, particularly for what the Tennessean recently called hovering “helicopter parents” for instance, is on “letting go.” Helicopter parents might include baby boomers used to being in charge, parents sending their first son or daughter off to college and those who, in sending off the youngest of family members, feel the effects of “empty nest syndrome.”
With safety and alcohol-related issues often among the areas discussed during student orientations – some of which parents might be able to participate in – colleges and universities provide a means of addressing some of the issues that might concern parents. A recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution also included expert advice for students. The article provided information for parents who enjoy being involved as well.
Technology offerings might also help ease the pain for parents who have a hard time distancing themselves from college-going sons and daughters. At least two campuses feature live campus web cams that allow for seeing what’s happening on campus in real-time via the Internet. Communication programs, such as Skype, allow for video and voice calls, file transfers and more. Parents can also keep up, and in touch, with college and university students via social networking sites, such as Facebook.
While it might be difficult for some parents to let go, becoming familiar with a campus and its community first-hand might help ease the separation anxiety. Parents and students can also bridge the distance between them through use of technology. An author interviewed for a Chicago Tribune article, however, suggested that parents and students should find the right balance in order for students to be independent.
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