Dean’s Dish

Are You Asleep or Just Ignoring Me? Parents, Kids, College, and Communicating

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Each summer, through our summer orientation program, I get the chance to meet excited – and nervous – students and their families as they are beginning their college journey. It is one of the things I really like about the structure of orientation at Boston University; students and parents come to orientation weeks, and sometimes […]

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To Vacate or Not To Vacate

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While I like the fall and spring seasons best, perhaps like most true Northeasterners summer brings the joys of a true vacation. Many think that anyone who works at a college has the summer off, and though that is actually not the case for most administrators like me or my team, we do try to […]

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