Robert Brucker '07 is a Rowland Junior Fellow at Harvard University.
"Mount Union set me on my current career path. The courses and professors that I interacted with helped shape my thinking and made me appreciate the value of a good education."
From now until the end of August, you'll receive a monthly Raider Family email newsletter from Mount Union. These are designed to parallel the weekly New Raider News emails we are sending to your Mount Union student's @mountunion.edu email address. In those weekly emails to your student, we are providing all of the need-to-know information before arriving on campus in August, as well as some fun facts and links to blog posts and videos.
We hope that you will not only find these monthly newsletters helpful and informative, but that you also will help us encourage your student to read the emails we are sending. Students have so much going on during this time of transition from high school to college, and any help you can provide in urging students to check their Mount Union email regularly, read their weekly New Raider News issue and complete any important tasks would be beneficial. Being successful in college is a team effort, and we want to start building that team between you and the Mount Union community as soon as we can!
July Newsletters
Last month, your student received information about Mount's Health Center and Study Abroad and Sustainability programs. We also let them know about the Think About It program and the Student Health Insurance Plans.
The Think About It program is a healthy choices online educational program that your student must complete prior to August 22. Students were sent emails about how to access this program to their Mount Union email address, so please encourage them to check that!
The student health insurance plan is also a critical piece of information to explore with your student. Students must also determine whether they will enroll in Mount Union's Student Health Insurance Planor will be covered under another plan that complies with the Affordable Care Act. All student must use ouronline insurance formto either waive or opt-in to the Mount Union Student Health insurance by September 6, 2016. After that date, any student who has not waived or opted-in to the health insurance will automatically be enrolled in and billed for the Student Insurance Plan offered by Mount Union. If you have questions about the Student Insurance Plan or how to complete this waiver, contact the Health Center at (330) 823-2692 or email questions to
We want to be sure you have all of that information as well, and we have archived those studentNew Raider Newsissues so that you can peruse them and help your student get the information he or she needs.
Website Just for First-Year Students
We've created a one-stop website specifically designed to meet your student's needs as he or she enters Mount Union. With first-year FAQs about many of our campus services and a handy checklist of next steps to take on the journey to Mount Union, your questions can be answered by visiting this website or emailing [email protected].
