Parents Resources

Below you will find a list of web and print resources that you may find useful in talking with your son or daghter about college, their major and career choices.

Online Resources

• Parents’ Council
  
• Resources for Parents

Articles

• CNN Article: Hovering parents need to step back at college time
  From our web site | Article from CNN web site

Print Resources

1. The Parent’s Crash Course in Career Planning: Helping Your College Student Succeed, Harris & Jones, NTC Publishing Group, 2007 (authors are the Director and Assistant Director of UCS at UNC Chapel Hill.) In revision, current copy available at www.lulu.com.
   
2. Career Coaching Your Kids, Montross, Kane S Ginn, Davies-Black Publishing, 2004
   What Color is Your Parachute?, Bolles, Ten Speed Press (updated yearly)
   
3. Career Patterns: A Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, Prentice Hall, Liz Harris-Tuck, 2000
   
4. College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and
5. Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors, JIST Works, Neeta Fogg, 2004
   
6. Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money, Johnson and Schelhas-Miller, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000
   
7. 25 Jobs That Have It All, Ferguson Publishing, 2003
   
8. Major in Success, Combs, Ten Speed Press, 2003
   
9. Majoring in the Rest of Your Life, Prentice Hall, 2000
   
10. Quick Guide to College Majors and Careers, JIST Works, Laurence Shatkin, 2002