Recommended Reading

Assist your student with the college transition and with their career development by reviewing these recommended readings:

• 25 Ways to Make College Pay Off: Advice for Anxious Parents from a Professor Who's Seen It All
  Bill Coplin, Amacom 2007
  
  
• A Family Guide to Academic Advising 2nd Edition
  Donald C. Smith & Virginia N. Gordon, NACADA 2008
  
  
• Career Coaching Your Kids: Guiding Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery
  David Montross, Consulting Psychologist Press 2004
  
  
• Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths & How We Can Reclaim Them
  Mary H. Jacobsen, Rivers Press 2010

• Letting Go (Fifth Edition): A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the College Years
  Karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger, Harper Collins Publisher 2009
  
  
• Making College Count: A Real World Look at How to Succeed In and After College 2nd Edition
  Patrick S. O'Brien, O'Brien, Patrick Enterprises LLC 2010

• Parent's Guide to College and Careers: How to Help, Not Hover
  Barbara Cooke, JIST Works 2010
  
  
• The Parent's Crash Course in Career Planning: Helping Your College Student Succeed
  Sharon Jones & Marcia Harris, Career Dimensions 2007

• The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up Barbara K. Hofer & Abigail Sullivan Moore, Free Press 2010
  
  
• A Family Guide to Academic Advising
  Donald C. Smith & Virginia N. Gordon, 2008
  
  
• A Guide for Families of Commuter Students: Supporting Your Student's Success
  Cathie Hatch & Tracy L. Skipper, 2004
  
  
• Empowering Parents of First-Year College Students: A Guide for Success
  Richard Mullendore & Leslie Banahan, 2007