Welcome to the College Parent Podcast! On this week's episode RD's Luis Robles and Jordan Cooper interview UMass Boston's Director of New Student and Family Programs Phillip Begeal where they discuss how to empower and support your student in their college experience when they don't live close to home.

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Supporting Your Student From a Distance

Welcome to The College Parent Podcast! On this week's episode Jessica Rice and Elisabeth Bordulis talk with Residence Life expert and Enneagram Coach Abigail Rodriguez about how parents should support their college students who are experiencing roommate conflict.

How to Support Your Student Through Roommate Conflict

On today’s episode we will be discussing practical steps that parents can take to ensure their college student stays healthy over the break! Our guest for today is Krystal Huesmann. She is the Director of Health Services at Belmont University. Thanks for joining us on the show today!

Ready For--Traveling Home During a Pandemic

David Friedrichs, Director of Community Life at Montreat College hops on to chat with us about students finding their fit in their second semester and second year of college!

Ready For--A Strong Second Semester

In this episode we're speaking with college students Savannah Land and Sean Presley about their take on online classes, how they've navigated the transition, and strategies that they use for success. Was this episode helpful? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. Thank you for listening!

Ready For--Online Classes: The Student Perspective

In this episode we interview Creative & Entertainment Industries Professor Dr. David Schrieber about his take on online classes, what the Hyflex model is, and what he thinks the future of online classes will be. Like the episode? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. As always, thanks for listening!

Ready For--Online Classes: The Professor Perspective

In this episode, Callie and Luis talk to several members of the college community to discuss overcoming trying times.

Ready For--Challenging Circumstances

In this episode, we're chatting with Debbie Sprang about students transitioning to college and coaching them through tough times!

Ready For--Coaching Autonomy

In this episode, RDs Cody Cline and Hannah Niblett discuss the transition to college and overcoming obstacles with Dr. Laylah Bonner.

Ready For--Navigating the Transition

In this episode we're speaking with our Associate Dean of Students and Director of Residence Life, Dr. Anthony Donovan about finding housing away from campus. This is meant to be one of many resources that we hope our Belmont families are utilizing to not only explain how our housing requirements work here at Belmont University, but also as some first steps that folks can take to find housing in Nashville for their students. Was this episode helpful? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. Thanks so much for listening!

Ready For--Off-Campus Housing Resources

We have a special episode focused on helping our students find off-campus housing. We require all new students to live on campus, but many of our students choose to move off campus going into their third year. We've partnered to produce this episode to introduce our students to Nashville Apartment Locators, a local business that offers FREE assistance with finding apartments in Nashville. Find out more about them HERE.In addition, our office has a list of resources that can be found here. Was the information in this episode helpful to you or your student? Send us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. Thanks for listening!

Ready For--Off Campus Housing

In this episode we're speaking with Dr. Thandi Dinani, Director of Global Education about study abroad programs. Dr. Dinani gives insight on choosing a program as well as lessons to process with your student after they return from an experience abroad. Like the episode? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. As always, thanks for listening!

Ready For--Study Abroad

In this episode we're speaking with Associate Dean of Students, Dr. AdriAnne Sternberg to learn about how and why students should get involved on campus. This episode is dear to our hearts as we talk about the variety of programming that is offered for students to get involved and the difference it can make to their college experience. Like the episode? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. As always, thanks for listening!

Ready For--Campus Involvement

It's a two-for-one! We're releasing this episode in conjunction with our last episode in which we heard from a professor about finals, classes and grades. In this episode we're hearing from a couple of current students about the things that they need during the stressful end of a semester and after. We're bringing this episode's content straight from the students' mouths! Like this episode? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. As always, thanks for listening!

Ready For--Finals and Support

In this episode we're speaking with a college professor, Dr. Tim Schoenfeld to learn about his perspective on both final exams as well as grades in general and what students can gain from their support systems as they navigate both successes and challenges. Like the episode? Give us some feedback at readyforpodcast@belmont.edu. As always, thanks for listening!

Ready For--Final Exams

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