Off to College电子书

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Making the Transition

What Happens When Your Child Arrives for Orientation?

What Happens after You Have Driven Off into the Sunset, Leaving Your Child Behind?

Some Orientation Safety Concerns Parents Probably Don’t Want to Know About

What Are Your Kids Talking about After You Have Gone?

2. Orientation

Orientation, Day 1: The Curriculum (including the Use of Advanced Placement Credits), Time Management, and Eating Well

Orientation, Day 2: Plagiarism, Campus Jobs, and Date Rape

3. Teaching and Advising

Why Is Advising So Important?

First-Year Class, Part One: Classroom Policy, Grades and Grade Inflation, Strategies around Teaching First-Year Students, More on Plagiarism, and Time Management

What’s a Typical Advising Session Like?

What’s the Rationale behind the First-Year Curriculum and What Are Its Challenges?

First-Year Class, Part Two: Active Learning, Writing Strategies, and Being Overwhelmed

Why Should You Encourage Your Child to Use the Writing Center?

First-Year Class, Part Three: More Writing Strategies, Texting in Class, and the Consequences of Disruptive Behavior

4. First-Year Finance

What Are Some of the Financial Challenges Parents and Students Will Deal with First Year?

What Does a First-Year Student Say about the Financial Challenges He Is Facing?

Should a First-Year Student Take on a Campus Job?

So, Where Does All Your Hard-Earned Tuition Money Go? A President Talks Candidly about College Cost

5. Living on Campus

How to Deal with Separation Anxiety and Why Parents Need to Chill

Everything You Wanted to Know about Residence Hall Life but Were Afraid to Ask: Roommates, Noise, and Coeducational Dorms

To What Degree Should Your Child Become Involved in Social and Extracurricular Activities?

What about Your Child’s Spiritual Life?

What Is Your Child Really Up To?

What Happens If Your Child Gets into Trouble?

What Does Your Child Do on the Weekend?

6. Health and Safety

What Should Your Child Do When He or She Gets Sick?

What Do First-Year Students Say about Health, including Eating, Smoking, Sex, and Depression?

What Should Your Child Do When She or He Becomes Homesick or Depressed?

Is Your Child Safe? The Inside Story on Drinking, Date Rape, and Campus Shooters

What Do First-Year Students Say about Campus Safety?

A Walk around Campus Late on a Busy Weekend Evening with a Campus Safety Officer

7. Athletics and Physical Fitness

What Happens Before and During the First Game?

What Is the Philosophy of College Athletics and What Is Your Role as a Parent?

What If Your Child Isn’t an Athlete?

When Your Kid Isn’t a Starter

What Do First-Year Student Athletes Say about Sports and Academics?

A Coach’s Perspective on First-Year Student Athletes

Reflections of a First-Year Bench Sitter

8. First Gens

First Gens Talk about Going to College: Parental Support, Challenges, and Fitting In

What Do You Need to Know If Your Child Is the First in Your Family to Go to College?

What Is It Like to Come from a Proscribed Ethnic Community but Attend a Very Diverse College?

What Are the Challenges for First Gens Who Are African American or Latino?

A First Gen Talks about Surprises First Year and Challenges of Being a Minority Student on a Largely White Campus

Some Straight Talk from an Old Hand in First-Gen Education

9. First-Year Students with Disabilities

What First-Year Students with a Learning Disability Say about Going to College: The Importance of Accommodation

What Do You Need to Know If Your Child Has a Learning Disability?

What Do You Need to Know If Your Child Has a Physical Disability?

10. Growing Up

A College President Comments on the First-Year Growing-Up Process

A Personal Story of the First Year

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index