Homecoming is Parent and Family Day

Stephanie Mason/ Contributing Writer

Students’ families may have the opportunity to be a Panther for a day.

Amy Woltman, interim director for the University’s Orientation and Parent Programs, welcomes University students’ families to attend Parent and Family Day, a day dedicated to the parents and families of students.

“Come one, come all,” is Woltman’s philosophy for the University’s annual Parent and Family Day.

The Parent and Family Day tradition at the University started in 2005 as a standalone event in which families had the opportunity to visit their University-attending family members. However, in 2008, the occasion was joined with Homecoming.

This year’s Parent and Family Day is Saturday, Oct. 13th. The day’s events include a family breakfast, a parent leadership council meeting, a tour of the Frost Art Museum, the homecoming parade and tailgate and the Homecoming game against Middle Tennessee State University.

A new addition to the event is the FIU Spirit Room. Many activities, including face painting and poster making, will take place in the Spirit Room, enabling students and their families to get “pantherized” for the homecoming game.

Woltman said Parent and Family Day is a great opportunity for family members to not only “connect with the University” but to “reconnect with their students and to see what it’s like to be a college student.”

To register for Parent and Family Day, students and parents can visit the University’s Homecoming webpage, hc.fiu.edu, where additional information about the event is provided. The price for each family member is $30. Students are free of charge.