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Complete College America released a report earlier this month that outlines a strategy, called Purpose First, to combine career choice, guided pathways and first-year momentum for college students.
The report, "College, On Purpose," contains best practices for improving institutional culture, career exploration, academic structures, first-year strategies and recruiting, admissions and onboarding at colleges.
It encourages colleges to start assessing students' career interests early on, so they can get advising on career maps in the first year and declare their majors before the second year. The idea is that "earlier is better," the report said, and students with clear goals in the beginning are less likely to have superfluous credits and can graduate in a shorter period of time. It also proposes categorizing majors into "meta-majors" to help students make progress in an area of study as they decide on a major.
