Post-College Ready - Paperback

Updated for the 2025-2026 school year!

Post-College Ready is for the parents, family members, and supporters who have answered late-night calls, advocated for their students, attended family weekends, and are ready to launch their almost-adult child into the post-college world. There are many books out there about what college is like. There is also information about what adulthood is like. But what about the transition from one to another? In Post-College Ready, you will find answers to the following questions, and more!

- Should your student search for a job in their field right away, apply to graduate school, or take a year off volunteering or working?

- Should they stay in their current apartment, move back home, or follow their partner across the country?

- Will you, as parents, continue to support them financially?

- How will your relationship change?

The goal of this book-written by professionals in the fields of family engagement, career services, leadership and civic engagement, graduate education, and alumni relations-is to help you start conversations with your student now as they plan for life after college and support them with whatever path they choose.

Contributors include:

Chelsea Petree, Ph.D., Director of Parent and Family Programs at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Alexandra Brown, senior director for UCLA Student Alumni Programs & Family Engagement

George Brown, director for the UCLA Alumni Scholars Program

Christina R. Brundage, director of Career Development at Marywood University

Kathryn Cilano, director of the Center for Leadership & Civic Engagement at Rochester Institute of Technology

Meaghan Davidson, associate vice president for student life and dean of students at Notre Dame of Maryland University

Kerri Fowler, director of Parents and Families Services at North Carolina State University

Marshall Greenleaf, director of Student and Family Support Services at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Shanise Kent, assistant dean in the Graduate School and director of the Office of Professional, Adult & Continuing Knowledge at the University at Albany, State University of New York

Branka Kristic, MA, founder of the Parent and Family Programs Office at Hofstra University

Darwin V. Kysor, director of the Career & Professional Development Office at the University of Pikeville

Ryan Lovell, associate dean of students, The Ohio State University

Joni O'Hagan oversees parent and family connections, peer to peer mentoring, first-year experience, and marketing/media for career services at St. John's University

Rebecca Osborne, lead student intern in the Office of Parents and Families Services at NC State University

Post-College Ready is one of a series of Ready Guides for parents of college students published by Parent Ready. More information at https: //parentready.com.