·         examine the different approaches colleges and universities are taking as they work with parents and other family members;

·         compare the differences in parent services between public and private and two- and four-year schools;

• The types of services and programming that different colleges and universities are offering, based on the results of a recent survey of parent programs nationally.
• The “best practices” and “weakest links” that parent programs have identified among their programs and services.
• Case studies of how parent programs have started and evolved.
• How student development and institutional affiliation can be enhanced by parent services.
• What are appropriate roles for parents of college students.
• What the future holds for parent/college relations.
  

Who Should Attend 

• Student affairs administrators
• Housing staff
• Admissions officers
• Financial aid staff
• Counselors and advisers, including academic and career advisers
• Commuter advisers
• Orientation staff
• Anyone who works with parents of college students

• They are conducted using the Internet and a phone line
• You can ask the speaker questions
• You can view the presentation anytime/anywhere following the live event for 30 days
• You can view the presentation multiple times

Who are the speakers?  Marjorie Savage Marjorie Savage is the director of the University of Minnesota Parent Program, serving as the liaison between the university and the parents of its 53,000 students. She has developed nationally acclaimed parent programming centered on communications and technology, and in recent years she has used Web technology to deliver information to parents on critical issues such as college mental health and student drinking. Ms. Savage has done research on parent programs nationally, and she routinely conducts assessments of her own program in order to measure the success of her services and to better understand the concerns of parents of college students. She has consulted with colleges and universities nationally and internationally on the topic of parent involvement, and she is the author of You’re on Your Own (But I’m Here If You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years); Simon and Schuster Fireside Edition, 2003.   George Ballinger George “Barney” Ballinger has been director of the office of Parent Relations at the University of Colorado-Boulder for close to two years.  He inherited an established parent program that focused on the activities of a strong, Colorado-based parent council.  Over the last year, however, Mr. Ballinger has worked to reorient CU’s program to place greater emphasis on outreach and communications.  He initiated this change, in part, because more than 35 percent of CU’s students hail from states other than Colorado.  A relative newcomer to parent relations, Mr. Ballinger served more than 27 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 2004.      How do these on-demand trainings work?    1.  We will send you a link to the recording, which is good indefinitely.  2.  You can distribute this link to your entire faculty and staff via email.  3.  They can watch this presentation from any computer that has Internet and speakers.    How would I use it?  You can distribute the links any way you like.   Here are some ideas: Distribute all links to faculty and staff so they can watch these presentations anytime, anywhere and have a discussion board for each topic Distribute one link to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month during the academic year and plan a discussion session at the end of each month for faculty and staff to get together and plan how they will implement the strategies presented Plan a day and time to show each webinar in a large classroom and invite all faculty and staff to attend - debrief immediately following the presentation Develop a professional development program around these topics with monthly themes and recognize the staff member that implements the best idea related to the theme Utilize these topics to develop cross functional and cross discipline teams to foster collegiality Utilize these presentations as part of your new employee training program