Positive Parental Involvement

The most recent NSSE report found students who reported more campus engagement and experienced a higher level of satisfaction with college positively correlated with their parents’ frequent interventions on campus. However, the report did note these interventions did not positively correlate with higher grade point averages.

Given the realities of our work and the information in this study what are your thoughts on the following question?

What are some of ways parents are successfully engaged on your campus?

Please post your comments.

November Post: Is In Consortio Cum Parentibus the New In Loco Parentis?

Gavin Henning (2007) Is In Consortio Cum Parentibus the New In Loco Parentis?, http://publications.naspa.org/naspajournal/vol44/iss3/art9

NPR Podcast

Click on the following link to access the September 13 podcast aired on NPR's Talk of the Town:
"Do Your Kids Need More of You, or Less?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14386629

Feel free to post feedback!

September Post: Technology

1) How are institutions currently using technology to communicate with parents? What is being considered for the future?

2) How are parents utilizing social networking sites? (example: Facebook and MySpace to check out their student’s roommate, then demanding a roommate change)

3) What responsibility, if any, does the institution have in educating parents about the positives/negatives/misrepresentations of these sites?