Parents and Family

If you have questions about how your student is doing at Berea College, you should start the dialogue first with your student. If you are not satisfied with that discussion, you can contact SST at 859-985-3376. We encourage you not to contact faculty members, as it is important that the faculty-student relationship be built directly by those individuals. In addition, faculty will not know whether a FERPA form has been signed, so they will not be certain what information your student has given permission to communicate. Our office can confirm your student’s FERPA status with the Registrar’s office to see if you have access to the student’s academic information.

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) provides collaborative learning opportunities for all Berea College students through Academic Coaching. Students can also utilize the CTL for Writing Resources, Teaching and Learning Assistant programs and Student-Faculty Partnership program. Please encourage your student to access their Teaching Assistant’s (T.A.’s) for academic help as well.

Disability & Accessibility Services (DAS) consider parents as partners in the work of making education accessible to students with disabilities and supporting those students through college. The resources are provided to help parents support their children with disabilities as college students. For more information about disability and accessibility resources, please visit the DAS website or contact Disability & Accessibility Services at 859-985-3327.

First-year students are eligible to apply for a parking pass on campus. Click here to read more about the Berea College motor vehicle policy.

Berea College offers sustainable transportation resources such as campus bike racks and carpool parking, a campus shuttle system to surrounding communities, and a student-led community bike program.

Bicycling Services

Four bicycle repair stations have been installed in easily accessible corners of campus. Students can rent a bike through the Sustainability office. Click here to learn more!

Campus Life Shuttles

Campus Life offers shuttle services for Berea College students. This 12-passenger van operates during regular hours three days a week to provide transportation for students to local towns and businesses.

Berea College’s student mailing address for both mail and packages is:

Student Name
CPO Box # ____, 101 Chestnut St.
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404

If you cannot reach your student, please contact the Area Coordinator that oversees each first-year hall. For contact information, please visit the Residence Life website. There are many possible reasons for an inability to communicate (your student turned his/her phone off, cell phone or internet service is disrupted, power is out, etc…), please know that our first priority is always our students’ safety. You can be assured that the Berea College Public Safety Team is hard at work from the very start of any emergency situation, and that college staff members are available to support student needs on an around-the-clock basis. To contact Public Safety please call 859-985-3333.

Encourage your student to:

• make an appointment to see Counseling Services in Fairchild Hall. Counseling Services attempts to meet the personal and developmental needs of individual students. To make an appointment please call 859-985-3212;
• speak with their Student Life Staff (Area Coordinator, Resident Assistant and Student Chaplin) are trained to assist students with accessing campus resources. There is a Student Chaplain in all first-year residence halls who can provide peer pastoral mentorship to students throughout campus;
• talk with their Academic Advisor. Students develop relationships early on with their Academic Advisors. If the student feels comfortable enough to share their issues the advisor can direct the student into the best campus resource.

Berea College students are provided health services through White House Clinics. Students can expect services such as medical, dental, full pharmacy and mental health support. Encourage your student to call and make an appointment with the Care Team.

All traditional students living on campus are required to be on a meal plan during their time at Berea College.

Non-traditional students and students living off campus are not eligible to be put on a dining plan during their time at Berea College.

The Mountaineer Dining Hall is closed during Winter Break and will re-open at the start of the academic term. During Spring Break and Summer term the dining hall will remain open.

Notification methods, depending upon the nature and extent of the emergency and populations at risk, may include but are  not limited to a combination of the following: activation of emergency outdoor sirens with tonal and voice capabilities; notification through the e2Campus Emergency Alert system which includes phone text messages, email and voice mail for both cell and land line phones;  campus email; messages posted on the college’s web page;  fire alarms; phone trees for  residence hall staff, divisional personnel, and building contact persons;  posted notices in prominent areas of campus; vehicle loud speakers; and notification by word of mouth. Once Emergency Notification has been made, the institution does not also issue a Timely Warning Statement on the same situation. The institution will issue appropriate follow-up communication, as needed, advising as to the status of the situation and concerns deemed relevant to the campus population.

The Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act signed into law in November 1990, requires that all institutions of higher education report annually to students and employees on specific campus crime statistics and security policies and procedures.  This report meets the requirements of that law and demonstrates compliance with the Federal Drug Free Schools and Communities Acts Amendments of 1989 to the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Berea College offers two sessions of summer courses. One option for your student is the four-week session in May and early June in which students may take one course for 1.5 credits. Or, students can take an eight-week session from early June through early August and take up to 2.25 credits. Some students participate in labor only experiences, such as the Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Program, during the summer months.