Kudos to Fairfield University for taking the initiative to help seniors with some of the biggest questions currently facing the Class of 2012 through the new Discern This! Senior Class program.
While many other organizations on campus focus on making sure seniors pay attention to job fairs, resume writing and preparation for their careers after college, the Senior Discernment Initiative helps seniors to actually sit down and think about their goals, the direction they see their lives taking, and how they see their own futures.
The members of the Discern This! Committee are all great resources around campus, pulled from a variety of different areas of the University community. By utlizing a variety of perspectives backed by a variety of life experiences, they help to guide students to reach their own unique decisions, rather than trying to herd them into typical expectations and post-grad decisions like other usual college outlets.
That’s not to say that other University resources aren’t helpful. In fact, they can really aid students with their futures and help them with the tips and tools they need to get to where they want to be, but the key is to have those resources help seniors once they decide – on their own- what future to pursue by first going through programs like Discern This!
It’s great to see the same attention given to programs like the Freshman Year Experience and sophomore residential colleges now being given to members of the senior class through discernment programs. We have some incredibly important decisions ahead of us, and it’s great to know that the Jesuit element of our University is here to help.
More information on The Senior Discernment Initiative can be found on this website: http://www.fairfield.edu/ll/ll_senior.html
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