What Parents Can Do When a University Won't Explain a Big Visit

When a university hosts a cabinet secretary and then says nothing about it for a month and a half, families are left to guess what happened. That is the situation at Washington University in St. Louis, where U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited campus and, per the student paper, administration has yet to explain what the meeting entailed. If you have a student at WashU — or you're a parent watching any university handle a sensitive visit — the useful move isn't outrage. It's knowing what has actually been said, what hasn't, and how to ask questions that are hard to wave off. Here's what the record shows, and what you can do with it. What actually happened, and what's still unknown? About a month and a half after McMahon's visit, the university still hasn't spoken publicly on what the meeting involved.

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