Support Student Success
Ensure that your Guided Pathways reforms reach students who are facing the most barriers to reaching their goals.
Colleges Succeed When Their Students Succeed
Guided Pathways helps students succeed by providing clear, structured plans that make it easier to understand what to do and when. With regular support, clear course sequences, and guidance along the way, it ensures that all students, no matter their background, have the tools they need to stay on track and reach their goals. This approach helps reduce gaps in access, completion, and outcomes, especially for students who may face more challenges. And, by doing so, colleges can support more students in attaining workforce-aligned credentials and better careers, ultimately creating a stronger workforce and economy for everyone.
Key Resources to Learn More
“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.
“Walk in My Shoes”: An Actionable Learner Engagement Framework to Foster Growth, Belonging, and AgencyHow to Achieve Better Community College Student Outcomes
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.
How to Achieve Better Community College Student Outcomes
How to Achieve Better Community College Student Outcomes How to Achieve Better Community College Student Outcomes(Re)Contextualizing Guided Pathways to Provide Equitable Supports for Community College Students
This report for college leaders provides three recommendations—developing career communities, offering tailored work-based learning, and using student-focused labor market data—to help colleges create more pathways that honor students’ experiences and better prepare them for success.
(Re)Contextualizing Guided Pathways to Provide Equitable Supports for Community College Students
(Re)Contextualizing Guided Pathways to Provide Equitable Supports for Community College StudentsEnsuring Greater Student Success in Guided Pathways
This guide offers tools and a framework for college leaders to embed fairness and access in guided pathways reforms, addressing barriers to close achievement gaps.
Ensuring Greater Student Success in Guided Pathways
Ensuring Greater Student Success in Guided Pathways