Guided Pathways Committee

The Guided Pathways Committee supports the District’s mission through a college-wide undertaking that provides a framework for integrating the California-based initiatives such as SSSP, Equity, Basic Skills Transformation, the Strong Workforce Program, and the California College Promise.

This committee strives to provide students with clear, educationally coherent program maps that include specific course sequences, progress milestones, and program learning outcomes. Essential practices of Guided Pathways include:

1. Clarify paths to student end goals
   1. Simplify students’ choices with default program maps developed by faculty and advisors that show students a clear pathway to completion, further education and employment in fields of importance to the region.
   2. Establish transfer pathways through alignment of pathway courses and expected learning outcomes with transfer institutions, to optimize applicability of community college credits to university majors.
2. Help students choose and enter a pathway
   1. Bridge K12 to higher education by assuring early remediation in the final year of high school through the application of courseware technology in strong K12/higher ed partnerships, such as the TN SAILS model.
   2. Redesign traditional remediation as an “on-ramp” to a program of study, which helps students explore academic and career options from the beginning of their college experience, aligns math and other foundation skills coursework with a student’s program of study, and integrates and contextualizes instruction to build academic and nonacademic foundation skills throughout the college-level curriculum, particularly in program “gateway” courses.
   3. Provide accelerated remediation to help very poorly prepared students succeed in college-level courses as soon as possible.
3. Help students stay on path
   1. Support students through a strong advising process, embedded and ongoing in the pathway experience and supported by appropriate technology, to help students make informed choices, strengthen clarity about transfer and career opportunities at the end of their chosen college path, ensure they develop an academic plan with predictable schedules, monitor their progress, and intervene when they go off track.
   2. Embed academic and non-academic supports throughout students’ programs to promote student learning and persistence.
4. Ensure that students are learning
   1. Establish program-level learning outcomes aligned with the requirements for success in employment and further education in a given field and apply the results of learning outcomes assessment to improve the effectiveness of instruction across programs.
   2. Integrate group projects, internships, and other applied learning experiences to enhance instruction and student success in courses across programs of study.
   3. Ensure incorporation of effective teaching practice throughout the pathways

Upcoming Items

Membership

• Clinton Slaughter
• Kerry Mayer
• George Potamianos
• Rory Johnson
• Alia Dunphy
• Kintay Johnson
• Amber Buntin
• Matt McCann
• Nicole Bryant Lescher
• Cameron Papp
• Amber Atkins (support)

Committee Terms of Service

The committee has no history to report and the terms of services are on an as needed basis at this time.