This practitioner packet explores guided pathways implementation, showcasing promising evidence from early adopters. It includes an overview of key practices, case studies with student success data, and guidance on timelines, processes, and measuring effectiveness to support colleges in achieving long-term improvements.
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.
Created by the California Community Colleges and the California Community Colleges Foundation, this resource provides strategies and tools for sustaining Guided Pathways initiatives and planning future steps to support students and build pathways to family-sustaining wages. It is designed for college leaders seeking practical guidance to maintain momentum in transforming student experiences.
This resource provides insights and strategies from a webinar on designing inclusive pathways for adult learners in community colleges. You can use this guide, with practical examples and tools, to implement effective strategies for building pathways with high-value credentials for adult learners.
This report from the Community College Research Center compiles experiences from 30 community colleges involved in the AACC Pathways Project. It offers evidence-based strategies for mapping programs, advising, scheduling, and integrating experiential learning for improved student outcomes.
This playbook provides strategies for engaging faculty in guided pathways implementation. Drawing from national faculty survey data, it offers tools for strengthening applied learning, assessment, and student engagement to improve academic outcomes.
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 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 the Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan (ACIP) framework, designed to help community colleges improve student retention and success, especially among underserved groups. It outlines research-backed strategies for guiding students in exploring career paths, building connections, gaining confidence through coursework, and creating a personalized education plan.
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.