Off to College: A Guide for Parents

ISBN-13: 9780226295633 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication date: 08/04/2015 Series: Chicago Guides to Academic Life Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) For many parents, sending their child off to college can be a disconcerting leap. After years spent helping with homework, attending parent-teacher conferences, and catching up after school, college life represents a world of unknowns. What really happens during that transitional first  year of college? And what can parents do to strike the right balance between providing support and fostering independence? With Off to College, Roger H. Martin helps parents understand this important period of transition by providing the perfect tour of the first year on today’s campus. Martin, a twenty-year college president and former Harvard dean, spent a year visiting five very different colleges and universities across the United States—public and private, large and small, elite and non-elite—to get an insider’