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Direct linkGross, Karen – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Many faculty and staff working in higher education lament the increasing involvement of the parents of their college-aged students. They denigrate such individuals as "helicopter" parents, and when the contact occurs in person as opposed to through the phone or email, they call them "lawn mower" parents. The whole issue of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Parent School Relationship, Parent Participation, Figurative Language
