Learner engagement and satisfaction drive persistence, retention, performance, completion, and career outcomes. This framework offers recommendations, tools, and insights to redesign the learn-to-work journey, centering growth, agency, and belonging. It draws from interviews with hundreds of learners for whom higher education was never designed.
This report outlines new thinking in five key Guided Pathways areas: program design, student onboarding, support, advising, and teaching. It shares lessons learned from research, highlights important practices for better student outcomes, and offers recommendations for colleges working on these reforms, along with future directions for research and practice.
This guide offers tools and a framework for college leaders to embed fairness and access in guided pathways reforms, addressing barriers to close achievement gaps.
This report for college leaders provides three recommendations—developing career communities, offering tailored work-based learning, and using student-focused labor market data—to help colleges create more pathways that honor students’ experiences and better prepare them for success.