CAREER STREET JOURNAL
Fall 1988
Freshman success course strikes responsive chord
This fall marked the implementation of the FRESHMAN SUCCESS COURSE. As an extension of Student Orientation And Registration (SOAR), the course meets the needs of new incoming students. During the semester, students concentrate on becoming acquainted with faculty, administrators, and other students through sessions on IPFW resources, organizations, and procedures. Topics of study include decision making, career testing, creativity, time management, and test anxiety. The purpose of the course is to help students make a successful transition to the university setting.
Instructors for FRESHMAN SUCCESS include Dean of Students Marian Adair; Director of Admissions Karl Zimmerman; Acting Associate Director of Career Services Bev Bolinger; and Academic Advisor Dennis Bothel.
As the response has been so favorable, an additional section will be offered in the spring semester, as well as an increased number of sections for fall 1989. FRESHMAN SUCCESS (IDIS 110) is open to all freshman! The class is scheduled to meet Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, and it carries one hour of credit.
Why this new course?
Many freshman enter college expecting to be passive learners (to be told what is right and wrong, good or bad). They rely on teachers, advisors, and counselors for this information. To move to a more realistic mode of reasoning, students need to be cognitively challenged while receiving support and structure.
The FRESHMAN SUCCESS COURSE is an excellent vehicle for helping students feel more comfortable and accepted in a new environment that may be perceived as strange or threatening. Through information exchanges, class discussions, and a diversity of assignments, students are helped to identify and understand the academic, personal, and social growth they will experience at IPFW.
What's the content?
1. Academic Concerns
* Understanding the value of a college degree (motivations and roles of educated individuals in society, basic orientation to academic expectations)
* Academic major information and planning
* Understanding university procedures and policies (scheduling, grading, student rights and responsibilities)
* Knowledge of campus resources
2. Personal-Social Concerns
* Interpersonal relationship skills
* Communication skills
* Decision-making skills and responsibility of decision making
3. Career Information and Planning
* Self assessment (interests, abilities, and values)
* Occupational and educational opportunities
* Job search skills (resume writing and interviewing techniques)
Career Services - Walb 113 - 481-6595
SOURCE: The College Placement Council, Inc., surveys 187 placement offices at 154 colleges and universities. Results are reported as of September 1988 for U.S. colleges.
AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY OFFERS
Bachelor's Degree Candidates (Data Combined for Men and Women)
By Curriculum For All Types of Employers
Number of Offers September 1988
Average $ Offers September 1988 July 1987
Percent Change in $ Offers from July 1987
Percentiles 90th 50th 10th
Business
Accounting 6,275 $2,000 $1,812 10.4% $2,300 $2,000 $1,700
Banking & Finance 1,676 1,886 N/A N/A 2,250 1,916 1,500
Business Administration 1,804 1,788 1,701 5.1 2,250 1,750 1,350
Human Resources (incl. Labor/Industrial Relations) 173 1,693 N/A N/A 2,125 1,667 1,233
Institutional Management 134 1,677 N/A N/A 2,083 1,600 1,333
Management Information Systems 599 2,072 1,979 4.7 2,475 2,125 1,583
Marketing & Distribution 1,875 1,758 1,697 3.6 2,166 1,750 1,333
Humanities & Social Sciences
Economics 845 2,026 1,970 2.8 2,500 2,000 1,500
Letters (incl. English, Lit., etc.) 139 1,722 N/A N/A 2,333 1,667 1,167
Humanities - All Other 319 1,622 N/A N/A 2,250 1,583 1,000
Criminal Justice 49 1,626 N/A N/A 2,083 1,542 1,083
History 128 1,904 N/A N/A 2,500 1,833 1,300
Psychology 230 1,716 N/A N/A 2,333 1,667 1,167
Social Sciences - All Other 480 1,848 N/A N/A 2,500 1,792 1,250
Communications
Advertising 99 1,615 N/A N/A 2,083 1,666 1,166
Communications 372 1,685 N/A N/A 2,100 1,667 1,200
Journalism 141 1,531 N/A N/A 2,017 1,513 1,040
Technical Writing 19 2,240 N/A N/A * * *
Engineering
Aerospace & Aeronautical 467 2,348 2,343 0.2 2,600 2,400 2,000
Agricultural 56 2,085 N/A N/A 2,550 2,143 1,583
Biomedical & Bioengineering 16 2,356 N/A N/A * * *
Chemical 1,511 2,583 2,487 3.8 2,750 2,625 2,362
Civil (incl. Construction, Sanitary, & Transportation Engrg.) 1221 2,133 2,037 4.7 2,500 2,100 1,816
Electrical (incl. Computer Engrg.) 5,347 2,478 2,410 2.8 2,700 2,500 2,200
Geological 23 2,068 1,973 4.8 2,542 2,042 1,700
Industrial 983 2,373 2,285 3.9 2,583 2,415 2,042
Mechanical 3,421 2,449 2,359 3.8 2,667 2,475 2,200
Metallurgical (incl. Metallurgy & Ceramic Engrg.) 189 2,454 2,417 1.5 2,633 2,485 2,240
Mining & Mineral 2 2,370 2,240 * * * *
Nuclear (incl. Engrg. Physics) 37 2,395 2,379 0.7 2,725 2,525 1,989
Petroleum 177 2,668 2,568 3.9 3,000 2,750 2,200
Engineering Technology 413 2,283 2,185 4.5 2,600 2,330 1,833
Sciences
Agricultural Sciences 188 1,685 1,649 2.2 2,275 1,600 1,200
Architectural & Environmental Design 1 1,300 N/A N/A * * *
Biological 119 1,697 1,818 -6.7 2,292 1,667 1,100
Chemistry 99 2,167 2,131 1.7 2,500 2,175 1,730
Computer Science 1,965 2,284 2,197 4.0 2,592 2,325 1,880
Mathematics 432 2,227 2,162 3.0 2,583 2,273 1,750
Allied Health Professions 111 1,878 N/A N/A 2,400 1,800 1,492
Nursing 274 1,971 N/A N/A 2,333 1,939 1,600
Pharmacy 203 2,863 N/A N/A 3,333 2,917 2,400
Physics 44 2,318 N/A N/A 2,675 2,411 1,833
Other Physical & Earth Sciences 32 1,768 N/A N/A 2,305 1,750 1,235
Renewable Natural Resources 20 1,661 N/A N/A 1,917 1,633 1,200
32,708
N/A--No historic data available.
Includes economics programs with both business and social science orientation.
No offers reported.
*Not computed for fewer than 20 offers.
