Encourage your student to check their TCU e-mail on a daily basis. TCU e-mail is a recognized official means of communication and your student will receive important emails regarding registration, housing signups and academic alerts. If your student chooses to forward their TCU e-mail to another provider such as hotmail or yahoo please encourage them to continue to monitor their TCU e-mail to ensure they receive all important notifications and deadlines that will affect them.

Financial responsibility is a very real learning experience for your student. TCU sends their student bills to the address that is provided by the student. In some cases the bill is sent home to good ol' Mom and Dad. The bill is in the student's name and is the student's bill… they are the responsible party for all charges that is incurred while attending TCU. A conversation about financial responsibility and encouraging your student to be responsible will empower them!

Other ways that your student can benefit from their years in college is for them to take advantage of the many resources available to them at TCU.

Below is a list of support programs and co-curricular activities that are available to your students. TCU's goal is to help your student:

• Grow academically and intellectually
• Examine and develop their personal philosophy of life
• Choose a major/career
• Become developed – physically, emotionally, and spiritually
• Determine their destiny
• Be a student leader
• Manage their time
• Achieve life-long independence
• Make friends for life

TCU provides a number of ways to make connections:

First year students are introduced to TCU's teaching, learning, and living environment. Your student can take advantage of:

• New Student/Academic Orientation
• Frog Camp
• Chancellor's Leadership Program
• Connections
• Residence Life Programs

All students have the opportunity to engage in programs and activities that will promote leadership development and foster a connection to the campus and the community at large. You can direct your student to attend or visit:

• Cultural Programs and Events
• TCU Leadership Center
• Emerging Leaders Program
• Intercollegiate and Intramural Sporting Events
• Community Service

You may direct students to campus resources and support services that will enable and empower them to succeed in their college experience:

• Advising/Talking with Professors
• Center for Academic Services
• Financial Aid and Scholarships
• Alcohol and Drug Education
• University Career Services
• Residence Services
• Athletics
• University Health Center
• Campus Recreation
• University Ministries

With your encouragement and the resources available at TCU, your student can be empowered to be all that they can be.