Guided Pathways: Redesigning First-Year Seminar Curriculum To Intentionally Address Career & Educational Planning

Description  Challenge - Assisting students who are unclear about their career goals The primary problem that this webinar addresses is the lack of student engagement in career exploration and planning. The first-year seminar offers a way for colleges to require all students to engage in this process. Key Takeaway Participants will be able to describe how the first-year seminar can be used as a vehicle to help students explore career options and develop an academic plan, utilize strategies to re-design the first-year seminar curriculum, and summarize the research on the effectiveness of this course. Overview The Guided Pathways movement calls for increased career exploration and planning. Many students are entering college unclear about their career goals and as a result, have not clearly mapped out an academic and career plan. As a result, students are taking longer to graduate and often do so with excess, unnecessary credits. This often means students are graduating with i