Mission Statement
The purposes of the organization shall be to provide a forum of communication between parents of Kettering University students and the University; to foster goodwill between the university, parents, students and the community; to assist the University and students in enhancing the students’ life while on campus.
Kettering University Parents' Association
- All parents of currently-enrolled undergraduate Kettering University students are members of the Kettering University Parents’ Association. If you’d like to volunteer to help, please contact the Parents Association President. Parent volunteers are an important part of Family Day and Orientation.
- The Parents Association meetings coincide with the August and November Family Days. These meetings are used to introduce the association officers, and new parents to the association and its functions.
- The elected association officers include a President, A & B-section Vice Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer. These officers form the Parents Advisory Board (PAB) along with selected volunteers and committee heads and are responsible for organizing all association activities including Family Day, Orientation, Homecoming and other events as requested. The Advisory Board usually meets four times a year.
- Kettering University Parents’ Advisory Board meetings for 2007-08 are:
- Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:15 a.m.
- Saturday, November 3, 2007 11:00 a.m.
- Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:30 a.m.
- Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:30 a.m.
Call Deborah Stewart 800.955.4464 ext. 9679 or Eva White 800.955.4464 ext. 9872 for meeting times.
Family Days for 2008/2009:
- A-Section August 2, 2008
- B-Section November 1, 2008
Family invitations/information for future events will be mailed to parents' addresses first week of their students' term. Don't forget to register 10 days before the event. Pre-registration is required. Next year’s event dates will be finalized during the January 6 board meeting.
Orientation Days 2008/2009:
- A-Section July 10, 2008
- B-Section October 2, 2008
Please contact Keith Kaniut, Julie Blalock or Sue Rieger if you are interested in helping on these days by selling Gold Cards.
From the Association president..
This space highlights current issues and meetings as well as upcoming events, decisions, and volunteer “opportunities”.
Keith Kaniut
April 14, 2008: During last Saturday’s April Board meeting we discussed several important topics including:
- New fund raising ideas and options
- New t-shirts based on the university’s current advertising campaign (“I am massively ahead of the game…”; “Extra parts mean you built it better”; etc.)
- New web page items: “Important Information for Prospective Parents”; “FAQ”
- Better give-away items for our many events like refrigerator magnets with our web address and “Parents have questions too…”; business cards; pens…
- How to improve our impact and visibility during the Prep for Success events
We continued to discuss the use of the Blackboard interactive web application to increase participation by out-of-state parents in our meetings. We propose to ask all new parents during Orientation Day whether they wish a logon for Blackboard. Once they are issued a logon ID they can participate in the discussion forums and the Association meetings using its interactive on-line features.
We are taking small and easily-managed steps with this new application to avoid being overwhelmed by its capabilities and the possibilities. But I foresee that it will soon become our primary means of communication with parents as greater percentages of us move “on-line”.
I’m very excited about our new reference for prospective parents and hope to add its link to our web page by the end of this month. The draft is currently circulating among the Association Board members as each one adds their own lessons and advice to the new parents. Interestingly, we will be using the Blackboard Discussion Forum feature to review and append this document during its development, hoping to speed up the process. Here are the topics to be covered by this new document:
- What is Kettering University?
- A versus B section
- Important Dates
- FAFSA
- Student Loans
- Housing Options
- Security: On & Off Campus
- Student Information Release forms
- Health/Medical Insurance
- Co-op: How it works and Why you want it…
- Computers
- Vacations
- Banking Options
- Social Life
- Transportation Options
- FAQ
As you may have noticed from the January meeting minutes, we actually raised less money than we spent last year due to less-than-expected Gold Card sales. The Board has decided to change our focus to t-shirts and polo shirts in an effort to reverse this trend. We hope to sell Parents Association shirts at all events where we participate this coming year. We also hope to find a way to set up an on-campus process for selling them in between these events. Any ideas on this last would be welcome.
Please read the April Board meeting notes for further details.
Finally, if you think of anything that would have been helpful to a new parent that we could have done, please let me know via the email link below.
Cordially,
Keith M. Kaniut
President, Parents’ Association
Contact Info:
Ph - (248) 755-4141; Email - (kkaniut@tir.com)
 Membership PLUS+
Includes a Parents' Directory and a Kettering Gold Card, a discount card good at 33 area businesses. Cost is $10. Purchase your Membership PLUS+ at Family Weekend, Orientation, or through Student Affairs at Kettering.
Gold Cards without the Parent Directory may be purchased for $5 through
the Student Activities Office, 3rd floor of the Campus Center.
Gold Card profits help support Kettering students. To date, two upper class scholarships have been established using profits from this fundraiser. Please continue help to your student by buying a Gold Card. They not only receive great discounts but they may benefit from the Parents Association’s donations to Kettering too!
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