One Dean’s Advice: 4 Things for Parents to Know This Summer

As our kids head off to college we know our relationship with them is going to change, but how it will change is not at all clear. I’ll admit to being scared out of my mind when I sent my first son off the college. We had spoken almost every day of his life and now I knew that was going to end. Like most college kids of my era, I talked to my parents once a week keeping the call short and, in the back of my mind, I think that is what I feared the most.

Here is the good news. Most kids talk (...