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Need:When establishing college policies and advising practices that impact undecided students, decision-makers and advisors should be informed of reasons for academic major changes. Although most students are enrolled in majors, final decisions about majors and careers may occur during the college experience. Guiding Questions:We will share results from our research study explaining how students make decisions on their major choice at two campuses as well as propose a possible intervention that can be made available as a tool to help with the decision-making process. Broader Impact:We will share our academic decision-making and career-planning program (called COMPASS) that has been offered to more than 1,000 first-year engineering students on two campuses. The objectives of this poster will be to: 1) Share findings from the research study for what resources students use when making a major choice, 2) Demonstrate the COMPASS platform that is informed by our research findings and our preliminary results from our first cohort, 3) Identify potential adopters and partners for future work and 4) Identify elements missing that other potential adopters would like to have included in COMPASS.
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Jennifer Amos, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
