Reply to Why is everyone so mad at the colleges for their plans?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Why is everyone so mad at the colleges for their plans?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I am mad at DC's school (NYU) because they do not communicate with parents. At All. I have read about NYU's plans through DCUM, news reports and NYU posts on Facebook. NYU emails the students on their student accounts, which aren't checked regularly becaue students are not in school. Seeding an email to the student's school account does not always work well to get info to the student or the people who are paying. And they have the teh student's regular email account, and the parent's email accounts. The biggest joke was when I read that NYU was studying the NY state guidance on reopening educational institutions, and one of the top goals was to establish good communication with students and parents. It has not been done and complaints about the lack of communication are ignored.

The timing of announcements has been terrible too. DC goes to Tisch in the Film and TV program. The program sent out a message on Thursday July 2 at about 4P, which basically said don't bother coming back because classes will be online as much as possible, and you should use your own equipment (the message actually said phone cameras) for film projects- not ours. Students will not be allowed to use Tisch equipment and TIsch won't be charging the typical fees and insurance for the equipment for fall, but students are expected to pay the full tuition. Then the school was closed for the 3 day July 4 holiday weekend, and no questions were answered until Monday. A big reason to attend a film program is to learn how to use professional equipment. Without the opportunity to use Tisch equipment, it makes no sense to return, or take production classes. So this message was essentially telling Tisch students to stay home, change your plans and change your schedule all of which require interaction with school counselors and staff. You bet I'm mad Tisch made this important announcement and then all staff and counselors disappeared for 3 days.[/quote][/b]

You need to have your child sign the FERPA waiver (which both of our adult children did, understanding that we were paying full right).  Until you do that, NYU will not contact you regarding anything.  This is important for all parents to know because colleges (to their own benefit) have decided that adulthood begins at 18 notwithstanding the fact that parents may be paying for everything.  Until you do that, you will not be sent any emails and will not be able to advocate on behalf of your child for anything.  I'm an SN dad and learned this the hard way.  One of my nephews was flunking out of a SLAC in California but the parents - who were footing 75K a year - weren't notified.  It was only because the final notice that the child could NOT return to campus which was mailed to the child at the parents' address, did the parents learn that their child had been asked to leave.  Under you get your child to sign that, the college has no reason to communicate with you.[/quote]

My rising college freshman checks their college outlook email daily. And you chose to pay full freight-my kid is going to an lac with full tuition merit aid. It’s not my responsibility to remind an 18 year old to do this stuff. [b]Also, stop acting like paying full tuition entitles your kid to better treatment [/b](which isn’t doing your kid any good in the long run) than FA kids. [/quote]

Didn't say that.  You are looking for problems that don't exist.  My sister did not know about FERPA (which it sounds like original OP to the NYU story also is ignorant of).  And she's smart.  But she didn't understand that while she was paying full freight for a SLAC, that the SLAC had no obligation to report back to her that her ds was flunking out.  Think about that for a moment before you judge so quickly next time.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics