Introduction to MCP
MCP (My College & Career Plan) is an effective web-based program that helps students explore colleges, college majors and careers through a self-guided and highly interactive environment. It offers your student at a young age (anywhere from 8th to 12th grade) the resources to seek out good-fit colleges.
When the student has a "buy-in" to the College Planning process, the results can be tremendous! MCP provides your student a fun way to explore a vast array of colleges. MCP can even begin to cure your student from BNP (Brand Name Paralysis) by exposing them to dozens of good-fit colleges that would have likely gone unnoticed.
YouTube Culture
With today's YouTube culture, students find themselves in their comfort zone with MCP's videos. There's hundreds of them, 1 to 3 minutes in length, that describe some of the exciting careers in today's world. Did you know that - according to the Department of Labor - there are over 3000 occupations in America? One of MCP's key objectives is to assist the student with the daunting task of isolating several potential career possibilities.
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THE HISTORY OF MCP
MCP is a by-product of the IBM Education & Career Exploration System (ECES) for use by high school students, and the FOCUS Career and Education Planning System developed by Career Dimensions. FOCUS is one of the most widely used systems in educational institutions in the USA. MCP utilizes the best features of the FOCUS system and ECES. Numerous studies published in professional journals and text books describe the effectiveness of these systems in improving the career exploration, planning and decision making of high school students.
The design team for the IBM systems consisted of nationally prominent career development educators and theorists under the leadership of Professor Donald E. Super, of Columbia University, and then President of the American Psychological Association Division of Counseling Psychology.
Other team members included Professor Roger A. Myers of Columbia University and past president of the American Psychological Association Division of Counseling Psychology, Professor David Tiedeman, then of Harvard University, and Professor David Campbell, then of the University of Minnesota and co-developer of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. Dr Frank J. Minor, Senior Psychologist in the IBM Corporation was the IBM Project Director with overall responsibility for developing systems to support career guidance.
