Campus Visits

Were your spring break plans upended like everyone else’s? Are you trying to figure out how to make this “voluntary” lock-down more productive? The world is off its axis and…

People always seem to apologize when they’re making plans for summer campus visits; “I’m sorry, I know we should have done all this sooner, during spring break, but we couldn’t…

Families are about to load up their mini-vans and head for the airports and highways this week and next for the annual spring break campus visit blitz. Here are some…

If this spring break is going to be your first stroll on a college campus since your own graduation day, here are four tips to avoid some rookie-parent campus visit…

My campus visit mantra is: “It is worth more than two hours of your time if you might  spend four years of your life there.”  I am a strong advocate…

Photo by UNC Greensboro People always seem to apologize when they’re making plans for summer campus visits: “I’m sorry, I know we should have done all this sooner, during spring…

LEE SHULMAN BIERER My campus visit mantra is: “It is worth more than two hours of your time if you might spend four years of your life there.” I am…

LEE SHULMAN BIERER File photo by Mark Price/The Charlotte Observer Besides a home purchase, a college education is the single largest expense and investment you’ll likely ever make. Just as…

By LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo by UNC Asheville Most parents don’t spend much time worrying about the safety of their children on what they believe are, for the most part,…

LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo courtesy of Davidson College Until now, college visits haven’t changed much over the last several decades. Chatty students walk backward through campus, sharing fun facts, folklore…