Partnering with Your College Student

PARTNERING

WITH YOUR COLLEGE STUDENT

PARENT AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS

Successfully parenting a college student requires effectively listening, praying, and encouraging your student's resiliency.

We are not suggesting that dropping off your student at college means you should abandon all responsibility for them. We do suggest, however, that you continue the process of releasing responsibility for the outcomes in your student's life to them and to others. Allow us to suggest two essential ways to release your student.

Release your student to the Lord

As your student gradually leaves the nest, there is a tendency to seek to take control. Make it your practice to pray daily for your student and release them back to our heavenly Father. He knows what is best for your student, and you can trust Him. This doesn’t mean you forgo all guidance, but it does mean that you ultimately are trusting the Lord to guide your student.

Release your student to Liberty University

We know you care about your student, and so do we. Liberty has strategic plans to offer services, resources, and support for your student. In addition to faculty who will pray with and for your student, Liberty is staffed by compassionate professionals who are focused on serving your student’s spiritual, physical, mental, and social well-being. ► The CARE Team — Conducts threat assessment and provides students access to resources through case management services

► CASAS Advising Success — Helps students find answers and solve problems by connecting them to appropriate university resources

► LU Shepherd — Fosters spiritual growth and community through the ministry of pastors, resident shepherds, and community group leaders

► Office of Community Life — Helps students live in community through the process of conflict resolution, student discipline, and student development

► Office of Disability Accommodation Support — Arranges reasonable accommodations and program access to students with documented disabilities and temporary medical conditions

► Office of Residence Life — Provides daily guidance and assistance to students in residence halls through strategically positioned resident directors (RDs) and resident assistants (RAs)

► Office of Student Life — Serves commuter, graduate, and online students by connecting them to one another and university resources

► Student Counseling Services — Provides free, confidential, professional counseling services for residential students

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Liberty University does not engage in unlawful discrimination or harassment because of race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, or military veteran status in its educational programs and activities. Liberty University maintains its Christian mission and reserves its right to discriminate on the basis of religion to the extent that applicable law respects its right to act in furtherance of its religious objectives. The following persons have been designated to coordinate Liberty University’s compliance with certain anti-discrimination laws: Coordinator of LU Online Disability Accommodation Support at (434) 592-5417 or luoodas@liberty.edu; Director of Disability Accommodation Support (Residential) at (434) 582-2159 or odas@liberty.edu; Executive Director of Title IX at (434) 592-4999 or TitleIX@liberty.edu.