Creating Sustainability and Charting the Path Forward

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.

Innovating at Scale: Guided Pathways Adoption and Early Student Momentum Among the AACC Pathways Colleges

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.

“Walk in My Shoes”: An Actionable Learner Engagement Framework to Foster Growth, Belonging, and Agency

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.

A Strategy for Estimating the Effects of Whole-College Guided Pathways Reforms in Community Colleges

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.

Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan: How to reimagine onboarding into a program of study

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.