Shannon Schnuck, M.Ed.'s Blog

College means more responsibility, more freedom, and more choices for your child than he or she may have ever had before. Being away from home for the first time. Adjusting to dorm life or off-campus housing. Making new friends. Parties and drinking. Learning to balance the new social life with the increased study load. Staying healthy, balancing a tight budget, passing college exams. With so much to consider and manage, making the transition to college can be tricky for students and parents alike!

To help ease this transition, Education.com has launched a new special edition: Going to College, to provide parents and students with authoritative, credible information on a wide range of issues, including health and wellness, personal finance, adjusting to college academics, packing and preparing for college, and surviving the college social scene. There’s also a helpful section just for parents on how to let go while also remaining involved as a source of support in their child’s life during that first year of college.

With over 44 articles already included and more to come later this summer, the Going to College special edition was compiled by the following team of experts:

• Kevin Gaw, Ph.D., the current president of the American College Counseling Association and director of University Career Services at Georgia State University; Kevin is a leader in the college counseling and career services field, and has dedicated his career to helping students make the transition from high school to college and from college to the work-force,

• College Parents of America, the leading national membership association dedicated to advocating and to serving on behalf of current and future college parents

• And multiple members of the Education.com Reference team, including: Jennifer Kirshman, M.Ed., Denise Daniels, Ph.D. and me.

We hope you find this new special edition helpful, and will let us know what you think. You can use JustAsk to get your college-related questions answered by the Education.com community of experts, parents, students and others with relevant knowledge or personal experiences to share. Please also spend some time reviewing the other new special edition we’ve recently launched: College Financing, to learn how to pay for college during hard economic times.