Counseling Goals
The counseling center is committed to providing the best possible academic and personal counseling services to students. It pledges its advocacy to the students through the delivery of resources, guidance, and academic success strategies, while instilling a positive attitude toward learning and achievement.
Counseling Objectives
The Counseling Department will strive to provide the best personal and academic counseling to students; develop technical and academic learning skills, including life-long career development skills; discuss career exploration; facilitate educational planning and degree plan review; provide personal counseling and professional development, services include career entrance assessment; assist with university research and transfer planning; and guide to personal decisions making; provide disability services; and guide international students.
Educational Planning
Counselors and advisors are ready to assist you with your educational goals. We help you determine the degree plan that matches your intended career, interpret test scores for placement, help you understand how transferred courses from other universities fit on your degree plan, provide guidance and resources so that your experience at EPCC is worthwhile.
Career Services - Career Planning
- What do People in this field say about this career?
- How much will I be paid?
- What is the demand in the field?
- What are the two and four year universities tht offer my career?
Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions that you will make in your life, but it can also be an exhausting and difficult experience.
Career Services Department offers resources for career exploration, self-assessment, and research on the world of work and placement skill development. Career Services in all five campuses offers students a variety of services in career planning and exploration designed to assist in making an informed decision to maximize their career potential.
Personal Counseling
Personal Counseling
EPCC offers brief counseling for those who need it. Licensed master's level counselors provide short-term counseling in many areas.
Testing
Placement Testing
The EPCC Testing Services Department has a wealth of information regarding testing. Click on the link to learn about placement testing as well as the wide array of other testing services EPCC has to offer.
English As A Second Language (ESOL)
ESOL Advising
Students should meet with the ESOL counselor to learn more about course work and resources available for learning a second language.
International Students
General Information
Counselors provide in depth academic international counseling for foreign students in the areas of F1 visas and I-20’s.
Center for Students with Disabilities
CSD Counseling Services
Counselors provide optimal accessibility to a full range of educational opportunities. Academic and personal counseling, registration assistance, test taking assistance, and interpreting support are some of the services available.
Degree Programs
Degree Information and Degree Plans
At EPCC, a student can receive a Certificate of Completion, Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Arts, or an Associate of Arts in Teaching. Counselors help ensure that students are following a degree plan that meets their career objective.