In Fall 2001, the Ferris State University Career Institute partnered with the National Association of Manufacturers, the Precision Metalforming Association Educational Foundation and Associated Equipment Distributors Foundation to conduct its first national study of young people and their career decisions. 

The study was based on a Michigan survey conducted by the Ferris State University Partnership for Career Decision-Making, in which leaders in health, technology, education, business and government joined forces with Ferris to survey Michigan's young people to determine how they choose careers and courses of study, and what external factors influence those choices.

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