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[quote=Anonymous]Professor here.

I have met parents when they tour with their prospective students, and I have also met parents at departmental graduation activities (where we encourage students to invite friends and family to a celebration of their work).

My department does sometimes hear from parents, most recently primarily in regard to COVID and wanting more in-person classes. We are polite and roll our eyes when we hang up the phone. When parents want to talk about grades or academic matters, we are not able to speak to them about this due to FERPA (unless students have signed a waiver, which they really never do) and we tell them this.

9/10 times a parent contacting a faculty member is out of bounds but if they were ever concerned about the student's safety I would encourage them to reach out and they could be connected with the appropriate resources on campus. We try not to take out weird parents on the students, but it is definitely in the back of my mind when I know I have a student with a problematic parent in a course. [/quote]

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