by Mike McCormack | Sep 12, 2016 | Individuals
Consultants in the college and career planning industry often use assessment instruments to help the students choose a career direction, or sometimes even a specific career. The most common types of assessments used are ones that measure interests. The problem with...
by Mike McCormack | Feb 16, 2016 | Individuals
Try to consider all sides of this issue. A student told me recently that he had decided where he was going to college, and that it was a school where he didn’t have to choose a major until his junior year. He viewed this as a good thing because he would have longer to...
by Mike McCormack | Feb 11, 2016 | Individuals
University of Texas Chancellor Bill McRaven is now on board against the Top 10% rule in Texas. His comments were included in a Jan 22 article in The Texas Tribune that covered his comments in front of state governmental boards saying that the rule to allow automatic...
by Mike McCormack | May 27, 2014 | Individuals
Admiral William H. McRaven, Commander U. S. Special Operations Command and Navy Seal spoke last week at the U of Texas Commencement Address. The motto of the Austin campus is, “What starts here changes the world”, and Admiral McRaven used this motto as the...
by Mike McCormack | May 25, 2014 | Individuals
In this season of graduation ceremonies and speeches, I decided to share some of the encouragement I heard given to students as they move on to their next phase of life. At the University of Texas combined graduation ceremony on May 17, Admiral William H McRaven,...
