Essential Conditions
- Favorable policy (state, system, and institutional levels) and board support
Materials
Policy Meets Pathways: A State Policy Agenda for Transformational Change (executive summary) (posted 4/5/2018)
This publication offers key lessons from research as well as Completion by Design, Achieving the Dream, and JFF’s Student Success Center Network. It urges state leaders to consider how state policies affect student success and how state leaders can build an infrastructure to support and sustain reforms. Click “More” below for a link to the full report. (JFF)
Institutional Policies to Support Guided Pathways: Self-Assessment for Governing Boards (posted 4/5/2018)
This instrument guides governing boards and helps them make institutional policy decisions that accelerate and sustain pathways implementation. (American Association of Community Colleges and Achieving the Dream)
Guided Pathways State Policy Assessment (posted 4/5/2018)
Colleges use this tool to consider how state policy is affecting their ability to scale guided pathways and to explore opportunities for improving state policy. (JFF)
Policy Meets Pathways: A State Policy Agenda for Transformational Change (full report) (posted 4/5/2018)
This report offers key lessons from research as well as Completion by Design, Achieving the Dream, and JFF’s Student Success Center Network. It urges state leaders to consider how state policies affect student success and how state leaders can build an infrastructure to support and sustain reforms. (JFF)
Improving Credit Mobility for Community College Transfer Students: Findings and Recommendations from a 10-State Study (posted 4/5/2018)
By investigating credit mobility in 10 states — CA, FL, GA, KY, NC, NY OH, TN, TX, and WA — this report examines multiple policy approaches and shows how they play out, and potentially break down, at the campus level. (Education Northwest)
PRACTITIONER, PRESIDENT, AND PARTNER PERSPECTIVES
Tina Hart, Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services, Indian River State College, Pathways College (posted 4/5/2018)
We have policies that absolutely are the foundation for all of the initiatives, interventions, and everything that’s connected to that. I would say the most significant is board support, at least in Florida where we have local boards of trustees that are — that’s our governance. Actually not too long ago I went back, and I checked how many, how many different board meetings did we address student success, providing data, giving them updates, and also soliciting board approval for different things we wanted to change. And it was incredible the number of meetings that, if not every meeting, that there was something related to our student success focus at our board meetings, and they meet monthly. We’re all rowing in the same direction here.