Can I send a teen to Uni but still play the base family?

Wow, thank you all! So I was nervous to allow even the oldest teen to go to college because I thought my game would switch to him and I wouldn't be able to do anything else but play him in uni. So I can enroll one teen after another in Uni, and let them just play themselves there, maybe checking in periodically to ensure they don't flunk out, playing the dads at home as my main interest? AWESOME.