January 5, 2012
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Managing Millennial Parents
By Alan Galsky and Joyce Shotick
Over the last decade, a new generation of students—the so-called Millennials—enrolled in college. Many of those students shared a unique set of characteristics that made them both a challenge and a pleasure for those in higher education to work with and to teach. Perhaps the most interesting of these characteristics, from a higher-education perspective, was the Millennials’ close relationships with their parents. An increasing number of the students’ parents, in turn, have felt that they need to be actively involved in their offspring’s college educational experience.
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