Essential Conditions
- Technology infrastructure
Materials
Key Considerations for Choosing Technology Solutions to Support Guided Pathways: A Guide for Colleges (posted 4/5/2018)
This guide helps colleges identify the specific functions that technology can facilitate when implementing each of the four main guided pathways areas of practice. (Pathways Partners)
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PRACTITIONER, PRESIDENT, AND PARTNER PERSPECTIVES
Tonjua Williams, President, St. Petersburg College, Pathways Coach (posted 4/5/2018)
We have intentionally put together a strong plan where when a student goes in to look for a career and academic community, they see the dean of that community, their contact information, they see the advisor who’s responsible for that community and making sure the students have what they need, and the learning resource center support, who’s there to help them with that. In there, it shows all of the different degrees that are listed under each community. It shows what jobs, what the salaries are, and what competencies students need to have to be successful. Each community has created what’s called a workplace Facebook page. That workplace Facebook page invites all the students who are in that community to that Facebook page. And the faculty, the advisors, and the learning resource centers are pushing information out to those students. And the students are pushing information in. And so they even create dates and times that they’ll all get together and talk about their career and academic community. They’ll put together job forums, they’ll put together other tutoring and training opportunities, as well as advising sessions. What’s really unique about what we’ve done is that students have contact information of their advisors, they have the dean information, and the learning center information. And they can reach out to them, and we reach out to the student. We have had students using it before we marketed that information and put it out there. They found it on their own. And that was very good. It kind of organically became useful to the student.
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Tina Hart, Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services, Indian River State College, Pathways College (posted 4/5/2018)
And as new technology has become available and as we have the financial resources to utilize those, we’re trying all the time to help our advisors automate as much of what they’re doing as possible so their time with their students is the rich, meaningful, you know, deeper conversations that are about the students’ futures, about 30 years after they leave college, so they can have much more intentional, much more focused conversations. So we use quite a few technology resources, including something that we created called an Advisor Dashboard that they can filter by student, by semester, by number of hours. If a student goes off plan then, besides the alerts that the student receives and the advisor receives, the next, the morning after that the advisor will get a report immediately of students that have gone off plan over the past 24 hours, and they immediately call to get them in. So this is another tool that, with technology, we’ve been able to help the advisors not have to go looking for that information. They get that automatically.
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Craig Hayward, Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Bakersfield College, Pathways College (posted 4/5/2018)
The major challenges in adopting and supporting a software or digital infrastructure that allows for ongoing sustainable learning outcomes assessment are many. And it does take a village. Certainly faculty and really everyone needs to learn how to use the new software program and then how that’s integrated. But it’s not — it’s also the development. So faculty, of course, are involved in the development and in contributing to bringing the system online. So their perspective, when they are looking at the organizational schema, it needs to make sense to them. Are they — you know, are they seeing themselves represented? Are they seeing their programs and their departments represented in a way that makes sense? And so that’s one of the challenges. Just the organizational hierarchy and the framing of courses within programs within departments within divisions within colleges.
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