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Orientation Important For Online Degree Programs As Both Kids And parents Learn The Ropes
It's not uncommon for colleges and universities to welcome freshmen students to campus through orientations. These offerings provide students with information about 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.
Still other parents are spending time on college and university campuses as well. In some instances, they're sleeping in dorms and eating in dining halls, as well as meeting with professors, a Fox news report noted. These parents are participating in parent orientations that a number of institutions throughout the country provide.
College and university orientations in some instances take place over the course of two to three days. At Northeastern 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 Northeastern University students participate in these orientations, according to the Boston Globe.
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.”
student safety and alcohol-related issues are addressed as part of many student orientations, which might be of some reassurance to parents. In an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article in August, the publication provided advice for parents who to some extent would like to remain involved with what's happening on campus. At the same time, University of Georgia's Assistant to the President, Matthew Winston, provided the publication advice for students.
Technology makes it easier for parents and students these days to keep in touch with each other. Social networking programs, such as Facebook, allow for keeping in contact and sharing photographs and videos. Offerings such as Skype allow for video calls that can bring telephone discussions to another, more personalized, level.
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. This also applies to students participating in online degree education programs. Parents may be so impressed with today's learning tech that they'll take advantage of back to school grants and return to school themselves!
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