From the Parents Perspective:The Think College Experience in Rural Vermont

2017

Susan Yuan
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Through qualitative interviews, perspectives of parents in the first two years of the Think College Program at University of Vermont and Johnson State College were explored, identifying expectations, academic and social aspects, and experiences of their rural students as college members. Previous experience of students in more or less inclusive educational environments influenced parent perceptions. Parents described efforts to support their students during college, from financing and transportation to academic coaching, and accommodating lessons. They discussed hopes for employment, and evolving perceptions of their own roles in relation to the future lives of their adult sons or daughters.

post secondary, parents, rural

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals submitted

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers

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