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Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess (What Your College Student Won't Tell You)

by Barrett Seaman, John Wiley and Sons, 2005. Former Time Magazine reporter, and trustee at his alma mater, Hamilton College, offers an eye-opening perspective on current student affairs and campus life.

Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Guide to the College Years

by Helen E. Johnson and Christine Schelhas-Miller.  Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press 2011.  

(Schelhas-Miller is on the faculty at Cornell.) "One of the most difficult parts of being the parent of a college student is observing from afar as your child makes the often bumpy transition from dependence to independence. After years of being a responsible, caring, and 'in control' parent, this change can be frightening, rewarding, and nerve-racking-- sometimes all in the same week!"

Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger. Harper Perennial; 5th edition 2009.

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine, PhD.  Harper Perennial 2008.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

by Karen Zailckas.  Viking Penguin Books 2006.

When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent's Survival Guide

by Carol Barkin. William Morrow Paperbacks 1999.

You're On Your Own (But I'm Here if You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years

by Majorie Savage. Touchstone 2009.

College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do 榴梿视频 It

by Richard D. Kadison, MD and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. Jossey-Bass 2005.