WINTHROP
UNIVERSITY
SPECIAL
POINTS OF
INTEREST:
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Moving out for the
summer
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Students coming
home
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Final Exams
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Family Day 2012
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Moving Out for the Summer
If your son or daughter
is currently living on
campus, he or she must
check out of his or her
room or apartment by 9
a.m. on Tuesday, May 1.
Graduating students are
allowed to stay until 6
p.m. on the day of
graduation,
Saturday,
May 5.
Students will
need to move
everything out of
their room and complete the check-out
procedure with a Resident Assistant before
leaving at the end of the
semester.
Your student will need to
make sure that he/she
checks out with his/her
Resident Assistant and
turn in his/her room key.
If students do not check
out properly or do not
return their room key,
they will be assessed a
fine, which will show up
on their personal student
account.
For more information
about Residence Life
and move-out
procedures, please visit
the Department of Residence Life website at
www.winthrop.edu/
reslife or call
803/323-2223.
Preparing for Final Exams
Final exams will begin on
Wednesday, April 25 and
run through Tuesday,
May 1. You can find the
Spring 2012 exam schedule at
www.winthrop.edu/
uploadedfiles/recandreg/
Calendars/Exams.pdf.
The Academic Success
Center is offering
tutoring during exam
week. The Spring 2012
Exam Tutoring schedule
can be found at
www.winthrop.edu//
uploadedImages/success/
Spring2012ExamTuoringSchedule.jpg.
If you student is having
difficulty in an offered
course, encourage him or
her to take advantage of
this service to help
prepare for his or her
exams.
For more information on
the Academic Success
Center, please visit
www.winthrop.edu/
success or call 803/3233929.
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HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR COLLEGE KIDS
WHEN THEY COME HOME FOR THE SUMMER
Your summer can end in
disaster if your expectations
and your college kid’s
expectations clash when he/
she comes home for the
summer.
On the one hand, you are
looking forward to seeing
your child. You miss him/
her. You expect your student
to be the same person he/she
was when he/she left to go
off to school. You expect
your child to step back into
the role he/she had before
leaving for school in doing
household chores, keeping a
curfew, telling you almost
everything, and following the
rules of the family. You want
to hear all about his/her
studies, friends, ambitions
and plans for school. You
probably even hope to show
him/her off to the extended
family at get-togethers
because you are a proud
parent.
On the other hand, your
college kid just wants to
come home and sleep, hang
out with old friends and new
friends, stay out all night and
generally do whatever he/she
has been doing at school.
Your child has spent the last
year in an unstructured and
unsupervised environment
and probably really likes it
that way. This new world
contains new people, new
habits and a new style of
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dressing. You may or may
not agree with this, and as a
result he/she may not want
to discuss it with you.
As you can see, this can all
add up to disaster. Here are
some helpful tips to help
the inevitable transition.
pick a reasonable time (like 10
a.m.) after that so that the rest
of the family can do what they
need to. Don’t insist your child
be home by 11 p.m. when you
know at school he/she was out
until 4 a.m., but set the
expectation that he/she tell you
when he/she will be home in
advance and stick to it or call if
1. Negotiate conflicts
early: There are things you he/she cannot so you don’t
know will be sources of
have to worry. If your student
tension. They tend to be
uses the car, you must agree to
curfews, use of the car,
times you can spare it and say
phone and Internet use,
when and where he/she will be,
money use, who can come again so you are not left
over and when, and
anxious.
household responsibilities.
Decide ahead of time what 3. Encourage an adult-toyou are willing to settle for adult relationship: When you
with each of these items.
come off as an authoritative
Then sit down with your
parent, you push your child
game plan and discuss with away. Your child may be
your child. Find a place
struggling to become an adult,
where you can compromise and it’s difficult. Try listening
and make these the ground to his/her opinions and ideas.
rules for the summer.
Invite your child to discuss
how he/she feels about various
2. Be flexible: If you force issues and then also tell your
the same rules you had
child how you feel. The
before your student lived
evolution to this kind of
on his/her own at school,
relationship will be very
your child will truly resent gratifying for both of you.
it and may not want to
4. Accept them: While your
come home often, which
would be a loss for you. So child is in the new universe of
try to be flexible while
college, your child is most
maintaining certain limits likely trying on different
the family needs to coexist. personas, which may be
For instance, let your child different from the way he/she
sleep until 1 p.m. for the
was before. But you need to be
first few days, but then
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accepting of the different
clothing, hair, friends and
independence. In other
words, you need to accept
your child as the adult he/
she is becoming. If you are
going to have a good
relationship with your
child, you need to
appreciate him/her for who
he/she is.
5. Show them you want
them home: Let your child
know how happy you are to
be with him/her. While you
want to spend all the time
with your child you can get,
you need to allow him/her
time with friends.
However, do ask him/her to
save some time for you, so
you can do something fun
together.
Based on the article by
Dr. Gail Saltz, a
psychiatrist, found at
http:/today.msnbc.msn.com/
id/3079389/ns/todayparenting_and_family/t/
when-college-kids-comehome-summer/.
Family Day 2012
Winthrop University and the Office of New Student and Parent Programs are excited to
invite you to attend Family Day 2012 on September 29, 2012. Please note that the
date has changed from previous announcements. This event provides you the
opportunity to visit with your student and take part in numerous activities and events
planned for your enjoyment.
More information on Family Day 2012, including a preliminary schedule of events,
pricing, and how to register, will be available in June. Registration for Family Day
2012 will open in July.
Please do not hesitate to contact our office at any time if you have any questions at
803/323-2387 or via e-mail at parentprograms@winthrop.edu.
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First-Ever Public Art Installation for
Wells Fargo Golf Championship Planned
The creative work of nine
Winthrop University sculpture
students will soon be on display
for thousands of area visitors and
golf enthusiasts.
will fit into a white, powder
coated steel, arched window
frame. These windows create a
visual connection to the
architecture of the Quail
Hollow Clubhouse and to the
Wells Fargo Bank has
idea of looking at the past,
commissioned a series of eight
present and future. Each
sculpture installations for display window will rest atop a 10-foot
at the 2012 Wells Fargo
pole, and the completed pieces
Championship, a PGA TOUR
will be installed sequentially
golf tournament that will tee off along the championship’s entry
April 30 through May 6 at
path, making it a focal point for
Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club. visitors as they enter Quail
This collaboration marks the first Hollow.
time in the championship’s
10-year history, and one of the
Each sculpture will present an
few instances nationally, that
important theme: recycling, arts,
public art has been incorporated education, community, Wells
into a major golf event. The
Fargo history, Quail Hollow
project reflects Wells Fargo’s
history, tournament history and
longstanding support of
partnership. Sculpture signage
education and its commitment to will describe how the students
corporate citizenship.
translated their research of
assigned themes into the
"We are pleased this year to have finished pieces.
a partnership with the Winthrop
visual arts students as a way to
According to Shaun Cassidy, an
highlight a local project during associate professor of fine arts
tournament week," said Kym
who is providing faculty
Hougham, executive director of guidance throughout the design
the Wells Fargo
process, this unique
Championship. "In the past we collaboration requires students
have had several opportunities to to consider the context and site
help raise awareness for work
into which their sculptures will
done by local groups and the
be placed.
Winthrop Windows public art
project is certainly a unique and “It allows a student to work
positive program. I am confident within the parameters of a
this visual experience will be an creative public art opportunity
enhancement for the fans as they that is almost always reserved
enter the grounds of Quail
for a professional artist and not
Hollow Club."
a student. As such, we are
excited that the work will be
Collectively called the Windows sited at such a prominent
Project, each vertical sculpture location showcasing the
Department of Fine Arts’ commitment to providing students with
unique and exceptional learning
experiences,” said Cassidy.
The Department of Fine Arts
maintains a longstanding
commitment to encouraging
students to work creatively and
collaboratively within their
communities. The Windows
Project is only the students’ latest
partnership effort. They regularly
propose, design, fabricate and
install public art on campus and in
the community. Civic engagement
is just one facet of the fine arts
program that helps determine
student success.
About the Wells Fargo Championship:
The Wells Fargo Championship is one
of the largest, most prestigious
sporting events in the Charlotte
region. Champions for Education, a
non-profit organization, operates and
manages the tournament and has
donated over $13.5 million to local
and regional charities since 2003.
Now leading up to its 10th
anniversary, the tournament is
intended as an annual tradition that
will bring players and patrons back
each year for an unforgettable golf
experience. The 2012 tournament will
be held April 30-May 6. The national
and international golf community has
recognized it as one of the top events
on the PGA TOUR. A combination of
Quail Hollow Club and the spirit of
the Charlotte area community are
among the reasons the Wells Fargo
Championship has and should
continue to draw many of the world's
top golfers to Charlotte.
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