UMaps Then and Now: RIASEC Still Helps Students “Find Themselves”

What a surprise when Robert Reardon, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s Career Center, contacted me regarding a 1984 article I published in the Personnel and Guidance Journal about UMaps, a set of guides to opportunities at the University of Maryland organized according to John Holland’s person-environment theory. We created UMaps because information about the myriad options available on our large, decentralized campus was often hard for students to locate. Flash forward to today. Students can be overwhelmed because there is too much information coming at them from too many sources. As a result, Bob Reardon and I wonder whether the concept of UMaps may be adapted for today’s technology and today’s students. You can see a sample of UMaps HERE.

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