College Parent Central Podcast
Hosted by Vicki and Lynn and Elizabeth · Vicki Nelson, Lynn Abrahams, Elizabeth Hamblet
4.7from 39 ratings
- 166
- Episodes
- 21
- Transcribed
- 39
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About College Parent Central Podcast
You don’t stop parenting the day you drop your student off to college on Move-in Day. Your role simply changes. (Actually, it’s not simple at all, but it changes.) You’re a parent for life. Join Lynn Abrahams and Vicki Nelson, higher education professionals and former college parents, as they explore the topics that can help you be a more effective and supportive parent to your college bound student. Whether you already have a child in college, college is still a year or more away, or your student is about to step out, start now to gather the information that empowers you to be an effective college success coach to your student.
- Publisher
- Vicki Nelson, Lynn Abrahams, Elizabeth Hamblet
- Category
- education · kids & family · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
21 of 166 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#166 - At the Edge of the Cliff - A Conversation with Jon Marcus
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#165 - Your Lonely College Student Isn't Alone
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#164 – Encore: Helping Students Develop Relationships with Professors Beyond the Classroom
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#166 - At the Edge of the Cliff - A Conversation with Jon Marcus
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] On top of that, right now, you have some political forces also having an impact on college and university enrollment and, as a result, revenue, most notably international student enrollment. The number of international students declined significantly last year, is projected to be down by another 111,000 this fall. That particularly affects colleges and universities that had become heavily reliant on international students. So all of those things are coming together at the same time in a kind of perfect storm. I want to address one other comment that you made and then I'll shut up. Keep going. We have known that this was coming for a long time and universities maybe thought about it a little bit, but mostly I've learned as a higher education journalist that universities are mostly focused on next fall. filling the entering class. […]
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- Jon Marcus
- Michael Pomante
- Sacha Thieme
- Lindsay Illick
- Robert Smid
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 33 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100
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- Quality
- 79
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts College Parent Central Podcast?
Vicki and Lynn and Elizabeth host the show. Published by Vicki Nelson, Lynn Abrahams, Elizabeth Hamblet.
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