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Based on the Freshman Transition Standards of The George Washington University, this unique 2- to 3-unit hybrid course promotes college completion through a comprehensive, classroom-based guidance experience. Students leave the course with a personalized online 10-year Career and Education Plan, as well as a Skills-Based Education Plan, providing a concrete roadmap for their academic and career journey.

This course aligns with research from the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy, which shows that students who declare a program of study in their first year are twice as likely to complete as those who do so later.

Award-Winning

Career Choices and Changes was chosen as the curriculum for the award- winning Get Focused...Stay Focused! program, developed at Santa Barbara City College. This program was cited in the Aspen Institute’s report when SBCC won the coveted Aspen Institute Award for Excellence as the #1 community college in the country.

What Makes It Unique?

In this course, students learn a systematic decision-making process for quantifying life-defining choices. They develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes to successfully examine their own lives, evaluate a wide range of education options, foster a growth mindset, and establish reasoned and researched career and life goals for their future. At the same time, they explore the consequences of not completing their education. When students can envision a productive life of their own design, they are transformed into self-motivated learners.

The Results:

✓   A comprehensive and meaningful career and life 10-Year Plan

✓   A Skills-Based Education Plan

Change the Culture of Your Campus
When Every Student has an Online 10-year Career and Education Plan

The resulting online 10-Year Career and Education Plan, along with the Skills-Based Education Plan, provides a powerful tool for counseling, advising, and academic coaching sessions. Instructors can easily support the college’s student success goals by reviewing students’ plans and using the insights to motivate them to engage fully in their academic work, pursue their self-articulated goals, and build toward an economically self-sufficient future. With the 10-year Plan Mobile App included with the program, this process is seamless. When every incoming student completes this comprehensive guidance course—leaving with a clearly defined major and career path—you’ll see retention rates rise and intrinsic motivation soar.

Consider adopting this as a required course for all incoming students.

Students have a choice: Print text or online only

Students in the same class, if allowed by the instructor, can choose either:

It doesn’t matter which the student chooses because these options are seamless for the instructor by integrating all of the grading and oversight tools together.

An amazing value!

Other course materials with this level of depth and personalization often cost two to three times as much as Career Choices and Changes.

For one affordable price, students can choose between:

Both modalities provide the same comprehensive, self-paced guidance experience, culminating in a personalized 10-year Career and Education Plan and Skills-Based Education Plan.

And adopting instructors also receive complimentary access to our extensive Instructor Resource Center, making it easy to support students, track progress, and bring the program to life in any instructional setting.