This impact study explores Kirkwood Community College’s implementation of the Guided Pathways framework to support student success. Through self-study and strategic planning, the college improved advising, onboarding, and career-aligned pathways, leading to increased student persistence and retention.
This article examines Greenfield Community College’s (GCC) Guided Pathways implementation to address declining enrollment, retention, and completion rates. Through success coaches, program consolidation, and co-requisite math support, GCC streamlined pathways, aligned programs with workforce needs, and advanced statewide reform efforts.
This article explores Bluegrass Community and Technical College’s (BCTC) Guided Pathways reforms. By defining Career Pathways, redesigning advising, launching MyMajors, and creating Pathway Learning Communities, BCTC improved retention, graduation rates, and student engagement.
The Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) created “Listen to Me: Community College Students Tell Us What Helps Them Persist” for college practitioners to enhance student success. Based on 2021-2022 focus groups, it explores Guided Pathways, highlighting student challenges and best practices for improving persistence.
This impact study details how Ohio’s community colleges are innovating within the Guided Pathways model to enhance student onboarding. It highlights strategies for personalizing career exploration, program selection, and advising while showcasing cost-effective approaches to improving student support and student achievement.
This impact study explores how Motlow State, Nashville State, and Pellissippi State integrated targeted support for adult students within Guided Pathways reforms. By addressing different and overlapping student needs, these colleges implemented multi-pronged strategies to enhance adult student success.
This impact study details how Cuyahoga Community College engaged faculty and staff in decision-making to scale Guided Pathways, using it as a framework to strengthen and connect existing student success initiatives rather than a wholly new reform.
This impact study details Linn-Benton Community College’s grassroots approach to Guided Pathways. By prioritizing faculty and staff creativity, the college fostered a cultural transformation, ensuring guided pathways became an integrated, long-term strategy rather than a standalone project.
This impact study details how San Jacinto College’s used a Guided Pathways redesign to remove institutional barriers to student success. Faculty and staff used process mapping and “Framework Fridays”—weekly forums for collaboration—to enhance the student experience and drive reform.
This impact study details how Community College of Philadelphia’s (CCP) used the Guided Pathways framework to address shared concerns, phase in changes, and build on existing practices. It also shares how college leaders secured faculty and staff buy-in amid collective bargaining negotiations.