Exploratory

The Exploratory Experience
• Customized advising to begin planning personal, academic, and career goals.
• Support identifying courses, programs, and co-curricular opportunities at the university and in the surrounding community.
• Access to campus resources to learn the skills needed for academic success.
• Enrollment in Exploratory-specific First Year Experience courses, which promote self, major, and career exploration and support the academic and personal success of students in their first year of college.
• Career/professional development coaching to explore connections between academic majors and career aspirations.
• A strategy to select courses that allow for exploration of academic areas of interest while also fulfilling university requirements.
• Discovery of personal values, interests, and abilities; identification and exploration of majors and careers that resonate with them; self-knowledge to select a program of study that reflects goals.

Contact
Dana Saunders
Director
dfsaunde@uncg.edu
Heather Searcy
Associate Director for Academic Advising
hksearcy@uncg.edu
Students First Office
studentsfirst.uncg.edu/exploratory-advising-overview
336.334.5730
students@uncg.edu
Student Success Commons
101 Forney Building
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170