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Contact: Mark McGowan, NIU Office of Public Affairs
(815) 753-9472

March 19, 2004

Students in need of majors
can find last-minute guidance

DeKalb — When registration for fall classes begins next month, many freshmen and sophomores will remain without declared majors.

Perhaps they haven’t explored themselves to discover where their career interest lies. Maybe they are unaware of what majors Northern Illinois University offers. It’s possible they haven’t examined the options of the world of work. Other students – including some who are juniors or even seniors – have come to realize their original majors aren’t what they expected and have lost their appeal.

Brian Pillsbury, coordinator of career services at the NIU Counseling and Student Development Center, and his colleagues are coming to the rescue in the nick of time.

The Counseling and Student Development Center in the Campus Life Building is offering group meetings over the next few weeks for those students who need the direction necessary to find majors and to register for appropriate courses. The fee is $15, which pays for a career test, the Strong Interest Inventory.

Four groups are available, each meeting three times. The first sessions, respectively, are 3 p.m. today; 4 p.m. Thursday, March 25; 1 p.m. Monday, March 29, and 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30.

Advance registration is required. Call (815) 753-1206.

“We’re hoping people come out of this with a better sense of how to research majors and how to research careers,” Pillsbury said. “Ideally, they’ll choose a major, but at the very least, they’ll have narrowed it down to a couple options and they can start taking classes from those options.”

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