Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘Knowledge and access’

College, career advisers share a passion for helping students with post-high school paths

Early in their college career at Michigan State University, Ashley Thoms can recall a key moment that helped to shape a career path, albeit amid a stream of tears while conversing with an adviser. 

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my future, I was freaking out,” Thoms recalled. “My adviser, she would make me feel so calm, happy and assured of myself and my future. I want to give people that feeling. I want people to be able to talk to me, to leave and feel like they have a plan, that they are capable of things.” 

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