The Career Center > For Parents

The Career Center
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6270
Fax: 910.521.6166
Email: career@uncp.edu

Location: James B. Chavis University Center, Suite 210
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Recommended Reading

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has an excellent career development website for college students and their parents.

To further assist you in helping your student with the college transition and career development, a list of recommended publications follows.

Helping Your First-Year College Student Succeed: A Guide for Parents
Richard Mullendore
National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition 2000
University of South Carolina

Career Coaching Your Kids
David Montross
Consulting Psychologist Press 1997

The Parents Crash Course in Career Planning-Revised & Expanded
Marcia B. Harris & Sharon L. Jones
Career Dimensions-2007

When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent’s Survival Guide
Carol Barkin
Avon Books 1999

Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years
Helen E. Johnson
Griffin Trade Paperback 2000

Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College
Patricia Pasick
W. W. Norton & Company 1998

Letting Go: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the College Years
Karen Levin Coburn
Harper Perennial 1997

The Launching Years : Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life
Jennifer Wyatt & Laura Kastner
Three Rivers Press 2002