<p>Our older daughter's college has a Parent/Family Weekend, but so far I haven't come across any indication that Rice has something like this. (I've searched a bit here and on the website.)</p>
<p>Does Rice have such a thing?</p>
<p>Yes, here is what you are searching for:</p>
<p>[Rice</a> University | Families Weekend - Home](<a href=“http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~events/famweek/]Rice”>Families Weekend | Rice University)</p>
<p>Yes! I don’t know anything about it though. When I visited Rice it was family weekend, and the September something 2009 edition of the Rice Thresher had an article about family weekend, I remember reading it.</p>
<p>Also I found this. It’s 2009 I think but it might help you. </p>
<p>[Rice</a> University | Families Weekend - Home](<a href=“http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~events/famweek/]Rice”>Families Weekend | Rice University)</p>
<p>Edit: lol nice jben. beat me to it ;)</p>
<p>Thank you! (How did I miss that?) </p>
<p>I noticed that parents can actually attend a class with their students on Friday (at least that was the case last year). Do parents actually do that?</p>
<p>Appreciate your help. Now I can begin to sync up our fall calendar.</p>
<p>We attended classes on the Friday. We just did her major classes, not all of them, but it was fun. We were not the only ones there.</p>
<p>We didn’t attend any classes but we sent his hs brother along. We used the time to get to know Houston a little better and caught up with the boys after classes. Rice also plans a lot of events for parents- lectures, meeting staff members and other things specifically for parents. You will have to pick and choose from all the options.</p>
<p>Went last year and had a really good time. Sat in on two lectures - a large intro physics class (lots of seats for parents; probably 20 or so present) and a small intro comp sci class (20 or so students, 4 or 5 parents). I really enjoyed both. The physics prof was engaging with lots of demos in a large lecture setting. The computer class was conducted as an open discussion of computational strategy - it was very good and I had to restrain myself from answering questions in the computer class!
I really enjoyed the ‘meet the house house master’ event, seeing the new rec center and attending the bbq/football game.
It was well worth visiting and may well go again this year.</p>