What is Guided Pathways?

"Guided Pathways is an integrated framework that supports institutional transformation with student success at the center based upon a structured experience, as articulated in . Guided Pathways builds institutional capacity to define clear and coherent pathways for degree completion and to ensure learning while on the pathways, leading to completion of a postsecondary degree or credential." (

 

Funding for Guided Pathways

黑料社 was selected along with four other institutions in 2018 to receive $500,000 over five-years from to implement the Guided Pathways approach. The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges matched the grant, bringing the five-year total to $1 million.

  • News article: | The Daily News | February 1, 2018

The 2019-20 legislative session produced , which included an allocation of $32.1 million for implementation of Guided Pathways across all 34 community and technical colleges in the state. 


Patrick Henry Community College Presentation - Fall 2018

"We have spent the past 55 years making sure our students are college ready. We need to spend the next five making sure our colleges are student ready." - Dr. Greg Hodges, Fall 2018


Guided Pathways Resources

Top picks for faculty

  • | Inside Higher Ed | July 2020
  • | Community College Research Center | December 2019
  • | Community College Research Center | March 2015
  • | 黑料社 Website
  • | Washington Student Achievement Council

Advising

  • | Inside Higher Ed Today | June 19, 2019

Career Preparation for Students

  • | Inside Higher Ed Today | April 24, 2024

Co-requisites and Developmental Education

  • | The Chronicle of Higher Education | February 18, 2019
  • | Inside Higher Ed | July 17, 2018
  • | Brookings | March 29, 2018
  • |The Hechinger Report | May 9, 2018
  • | Missouri Department of Higher Education | March 19, 2018
  • | YourHub | July 12, 2018
  • | Community College Research Center | January 2019
  • | Community College Research Center | December 2019

Data

Note: students in the Guided Pathways cohorts include first-time, first-ever, post-secondary credential-seeking students. They must be new to the institution and system; transfers-in and returning students are included if they've earned less than 10 college credits in the system; current and former basic skills students who transition to workforce or transfer are included if they start with less than 10 college level credits earned in the system. Running Start students are excluded from the cohort. The Year 1 College Math point refers to the first five credits of college-level math taken, regardless of program requirements.

Guided Pathways - Early Adopter Stories

  • | The New York Times | March 28, 2017
  • | Midland College | October 24, 2017
  • | Community College Research Center | April 2017

Guided Pathways Framework

  • | educausereview | June 19, 2017
  • | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 25, 2017

Holistic Integrated Student Support Systems

  • | Community College Research Center | September 2013
  • | Georgia State University

Math Reform

  • | The University of Texas at Austin | October 2016
  • | The University of Texas at Austin

Program Pathway Mapping

  • | University of Hawai'i News | April 12, 2017

Technology

Assessing Technology for Guided Pathways

Advising and Integrated Student Support Technology Resources

  • | Community College Research Center
  • | Community College Research Center | July 2018
  • | Community College Research Center | July 2014
  • | Community College Research Center | May 2018

Research - General

  • | Inside Higher Ed Today | September 2020
  • | Community College Research Center | Columbia University | July 2019
  • | Community College Research Center | Columbia University
  • | Strada-Gallup Alumni Survey | Gallup Polls
  • | Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Videos

 

*Also known as meta-majors


Guided Pathways

  Kristen Finnel/VP Instruction

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  kfinnel@lowercolumbia.edu

  Sue Orchard/VP Student Services

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  Wendy Hall/VP Effectiveness & College Relations

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  whall@lowercolumbia.edu