Many parents think of the majors our students pursue and assume they transfer directly into careers. But that isn’t the way it always works. Further, moving from a majors to careers isn’t always a straight shot: it takes deliberate efforts, especially in today’s economy. The Basics I’ve worked with both high school and college students […]
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By now, your student may have registered for classes for the following term. And I’m sure you may have been asking questions of them like: Have you started your major yet? When will you finish all your general requirements? Are you taking courses in any other area besides your major? These are only a few
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When I worked at a university in New Jersey we tried to improve our student service experience by developing what we called “decision trees,” essentially a software program that would allow us to ask students a short series of questions so we could refer them to services easily and quickly. We developed these decision trees
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