Healthy Ways to Get to Know Your Student’s Friends

Getting to know your student’s friends is an important way to connect. Peers have great influence on many college students—and your student is likely no exception.

Civility on Campus
Is “rude and crude” on its way out?

A culture of civility. What does that expression mean to you? Could it be a culture where:

• people return shopping carts to the appropriate area instead of leaving them in the middle of a parking lot?
• you regularly let others into lines of traffic?

The Mid-Semester Slump

Your student may be in a funk known as the mid-semester slump. It involves restlessness, anxiety, strained relationships and stress. It comes about for all sorts of reasons, from midterm exams to being cooped up inside during the winter months.[more]