Parent Partnership

Our community takes seriously the opportunity to help students gain competence and learn the skills necessary to be effective leaders in the world. Such an endeavor cannot be achieved by University efforts alone; we believe that it is most successful when there is a partnership between the student, parents, and Indiana Wesleyan University. With this in mind, we expect students to take responsibility for their learning, choices, and actions; therefore, we intentionally engage them as adults. We also understand this is a transitional period for many of our students and believe that parents often still play a vital and influential role in the development of their children as they manage new independence.

Indiana Wesleyan University wants to partner with parents in providing that guidance and support; we hope that parents will support their student as they learn and seek to maintain, and take responsibility for, their commitment to the IWU community values and standards. It is our hope that, alongside the support parents provide, we can share the responsibility of providing a rewarding educational outcome for our students.

*It should be noted that Indiana Wesleyan University complies with FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), which is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of student education records. It also provides guidelines for appropriately using and releasing such records. As such, IWU respects the right of the student to determine parental involvement while, simultaneously, encouraging students to communicate openly with their parents. Students can provide consent to release education records by completing a FERPA Release form on the IWU Portal.