Counseling ready for transfers

    Anyone planning to transfer from TCC to a four-year school should seek advisement from the counseling center on his/her campus, a NE counseling staff member said recently.

   Richard Vela and Paul Goertemiller, academic advisors, presented Degree Planning\Transferring Made Easy, a seminar for students working toward an associate degree or taking basic courses.

   “College would have been much easier if I had taken advantage of my school’s counseling advisement,” Vela said.

   Vela continually reminded the attendees to check with the desired colleges about needed classes.

   He said that classes needed for a required major differ from school to school and that students need to be aware that the only people who can officially determine if a class will transfer will be at the school where the student is transferring.

   “A student’s transcript will be evaluated there,” he said.

   “It is the hardest to advise someone who is undecided on a major,” he said.

   Goertemiller said that students who want to know about their degree plans should see an academic advisor; however, students who are undecided should see a counselor. Students who are unsure of what they want to do can take a career test to help pick out a major. The test is free to students currently enrolled in classes.

   The advisors also directed attendees to collegesource.org for a list of schools that offer that major.

   Dwayne Stoltzfus, a former TCC student, said, “If I hadn’t received guidance while I was at TCC, I don’t know where I’d be.”

   Stoltzfus now attends Christ for the Nations Institute, pursuing a degree in theology. He also manages the office of Guardian Alarms, is married and will soon be a father.

   “I have a clear direction for my life, and I attribute it to TCC,” he said.