This guide explores evidence-based practices for helping students navigate academic and career pathways. It supports institutions in leveraging data to align programs with high-opportunity careers and transfer options, ensuring students achieve long-term success.
The Aspen Institute and Community College Research Center’s guide helps college leaders evaluate program value by assessing workforce outcomes and transfer success. It offers strategies to align guided pathways with living-wage jobs, high transfer rates, and equitable student success, supported by examples and evidence.
Achieving the Dream’s Institutional Capacity Framework is a comprehensive approach to addressing the emerging needs of the field to improve results for all students. The framework is built on seven essential capacities for colleges to create the student-focused culture that promotes student success. Evidence shows colleges must be strong in each capacity area to take…
This paper presents a a mixed-methods approach to evaluate both implementation and outcomes of guided pathways reforms in community colleges. You can use this resource to understand how to measure the scale of adoption of guided pathways practices at your institution and assess their impact on early student outcomes.
This resource introduces a framework for analyzing program enrollments to understand whether your programs truly lead to the education and career outcomes students seek, and whether student representation across programs is equitable. You can use this resource to conduct equity-minded analyses of your own program enrollments,creating visual representations of program enrollments, categorizing programs by post-graduation…
This report designed for college leaders provides national baseline data to benchmark progress and spark discussions that drive strategic improvements in student success.
This research brief examines nine early momentum metrics (EMMs) in community colleges, demonstrating how students’ first-year progress in credit accumulation, gateway course completion, and persistence strongly predicts their long-term credential completion rates across different student populations. By examining nine EMMs that strongly predict student completion rates, this resource provides you with actionable data to evaluate…
This report provides a year-by-year timeline for implementing Guided Pathways, guiding you through planning, stakeholder engagement, and resource allocation. Use it to ensure a structured, data-driven approach that enhances student success and completion rates through continuous improvement and effective pathway design.
This assessment guides institutions in evaluating their readiness to implement Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS). Colleges can use it to identify gaps, enhance planning, and support student success initiatives.
This interactive guide provides a blueprint for faculty and staff at two- and four-year institutions to implement and scale mathematics pathways. It outlines practical strategies for supporting timely degree completion through curriculum alignment.