• The World (as it looked in 2009)
• Perspective from The Beloit Mindset List
• Texas Tech Statistics on Majors of New Freshmen (Fall 2012)
• Texas Tech Success Statistics 

• Quick Summary of Student Challenges in the First Year
• How Education is Different & Continuously Changing
• Major Exploration & Confirmation
  • Expectation to Explore
  • Process for Exploration
  • Myth: "Just Focus on the Basics"
  • Interesting Statistics on Choices of Academic Majors (2010)
  • Interesting Statistics on Employment Outcomes of Academic Majors (2011)
• Academic Readiness Strategies
• Stress
• Health & Safety

Encourage the Use of Campus Resources

Academics: Major Choice & Academic Success

• Begin with Conversations on the Family-Institution Partnership in Academic Advising
• Understand the Research on Choosing Majors
• Consider Different Approaches
  • Open Conversations
  • No Conversations
  • Reference Advice from Past Versions of the Advising Guide

Student Life (Seeing the Bigger Picture)

TTU Parent & Family Relations Advice & Resources

Our goal at the end of RRO Day 2 is that students will have:

1. Registered for courses that will apply to their top major choices
   (Evidence of Success: printout and camera shot of schedule, reasoning for course selection recorded in ARC and reviewed by another advisor)
2. Understood and articulated why these courses matter
   (Evidence of Success: reasoning recorded in ARC, parent-student conversation after registration)
3. Articulated their current top candidates for an academic major
   (Evidence of Success: recorded major choices, reflective writing)
4. Identified courses for a first semester that will apply to those top candidates and contribute to a healthy first semester
   (Evidence of Success: potential course list, reflective writing)
5. Become competent and confident in using the Catalog, Raiderlink, Degree Audit, and Schedule Building tools
   (Evidence of Success:2-3 preferred schedules and "Registration Readiness")
6. Begun Exploring
1. Begun gathering more information about the academic offerings of Texas Tech
   (Evidence of Success: comparison of majors & outcomes)
2. Begun gathering more information about themselves and the good-fit options that an assessment can provide
   (Evidence of Success: FOCUS assessment)
3. Walked away with a plan for continued exploration with good advising support in the coming Fall
   (Evidence of Success: ARC feedback)