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Helicopter Parents of Community College Students: How Community College Professionals Operationally Define and Address This Phenomenon
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Hightower, Helen C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study examined whether the phenomenon of "parental over-involvement" occurred in the Virginia Community College System. Concern has been expressed in the popular and academic literature in recent years over the increased level of parental involvement at four year institutions whose student bodies consist almost exclusively of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Parent Participation, Attachment Behavior