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In a given month, hundreds of first-year students flock to the career services center inside Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), seeking support in their pursuit to find a career path aligned with their interests.
Across American colleges and universities, of course, such “undecideds” — students uncertain about their majors and without specific career plans — are hardly a new or unique phenomenon. But the uncertain status carries far more severe consequences for community and technical college students than for their counterparts at four-year institutions, where students have a couple of years to figure out a course of study.
“At a two-year college, you’re supposed to declare a major right away,” said Gail O’Kane, vice president and chief academic officer at MCTC. “Students are kind of forced to pick something, even if they don’t know.”
In reality, many students face a hard time finding, and sticking to, an area of study that leads to meaningful employment after college — one of the main reasons MCTC recently became one of the first community colleges in the state to make a more concerted effort to help students move from undecided to decided.
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