FAU has several great services to assist you as you help your student navigate the University!
Parents As Partners
Parents as Partners retention initiative to help your student “STAY@fau”
- Do you want to stay involved as a partner in your student’s success?
- Do you want to receive tips on what your student may be going through in college and how to deal with those transitions and issues?
- Do you want to be made aware of important dates to help remind your student?
- Do you want to keep a connection with FAU and find out what exciting things are happening?
- Do you want advice on how to handle common first-year problems and concerns?
If you answered YES to any of these, sign up for the “Parents as Partners” program to help your student “stay@FAU”
In an effort to help you take an active role in your student’s college success, we are offering this great program to parents of FAU students. “Parents as Partners” is a cooperative program between the CLASS Office (division of Undergraduate Studies) and the New Student and Owl Family Programs office (Division of Student Affairs) to keep you involved during your student’s FAU experience. We want to work with you to provide your student with the tools needed to be a success!
By providing your e-mail address when your student signs up for orientation, you will receive an update from our offices every 1-2 weeks during your student’s first year. These emails will contain important dates and information about things going on at FAU that you can share with your student. We will also provide answers to many of the questions you may have. This program will continue through the four years that your student is at FAU, with emails 1-2 times each semester.
To become a part of this program, have your son or daughter provide your email address on the orientation application or simply e-mail STAY@FAU.EDU and indicate that you would like to be added to the Parents As Partners List-serve. Remember, it’s never too late to join & start receiving important updates!
Parent Connection
So, your son or daughter is currently attending or will be going off to college. Through orientation and registration there is lots of information to help them prepare. Do you ever feel you need a course to help you, as a parent, prepare for what is ahead or handle what is occurring now? You are not alone. For many parents, having a child in college is an exciting yet anxiety filled time. The Notes for Parents is designed to help ease parents’ anxiety by providing information and resources to learn about what is ahead and deal with what is in the moment. Consider this your College Parenting 101 course! Click on the links below to view your class notes.
Snapshot of Today's First Year College Student
10 Questions Parents Should Ask Their First Semester Student
Owl Parent Association!
Parent and Family Weekend
What is FERPA?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
, Federal Law 20 U.S.C 1232g (FERPA), and Florida law, Section 228.093, Florida Statutes, provide a right of privacy to students regarding their educational needs. Under these laws, an educational institution and its employees may not permit the release of personally identifiable records or reports of a student without written consent of the student.
PLEASE NOTE THAT "DIRECTORY INFORMATION" CAN BE RELEASED TO OTHERS.
Directory Information is considered
public information and can include:
- Name
- Address
- Phone
- Date and place of birth
- Dates of attendance
- Degrees, honors and awards received
- Major program
- Height and weight of athletes
This information may be released without the student's written permission. However, the student may opt to consider this information as confidential as well.
If your student does not want directory information released, he/she must complete the form available HERE
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Only certain information can be released to parents regarding their son/daughter's financial or academic records. The Privacy Act exists to protect your son/daughter's right to confidentiality and limits our release of information to you. However, parents can obtain financial aid and billing information with the consent of their son/daughter by completing and submitting a parent release form available HERE .
For more information about FERPA Regulations, please contact the University Registrar at 561-297-3050
