Some Colleges Take Steps to End Long Good-Byes

Parents Forum
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<p>According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a growing number of colleges are hosting formal “goodbye” ceremonies to boot potential helicopter parents off campus once their freshman children have been installed. See [Colleges</a> urging ?Velcro parents? to back off, go home](<a href=“http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/article_38affc6c-ae51-11df-9649-00127992bc8b.html]Colleges”>Colleges urging “Velcro parents” go home)</p>

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<p>Good article and good ideas.</p>

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<p>Did you catch the College Confidential mention, too? :)</p>

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<p>More discussion here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/985366-students-welcome-college-parents-go-home.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/985366-students-welcome-college-parents-go-home.html&lt;/a&gt; (NYTimes)</p>