The Beginning
With the Skyline College Promise, College leaders explored how to create a meaningful and intentional academic and student support experience for all new students.
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Early Career Exploration: Sierra College
The Beginning
To improve student onboarding and make early counseling more effective, Sierra College integrated career exploration into orientation. The larger goal was to improve retention and completion by [...]
GP Workshop Highlights Community College Redesign with Students’ Careers in Mind
Representatives from 55 California community colleges gathered in Sacramento on Feb. 18 for a Guided Pathways workshop; this one explored how colleges are redesigning with students’ careers in mind. Highlights [...]
Convergence of Dual Enrollment Access and Guided Pathways Redesign: Videos Showcase
Bakersfield College is working to make dual enrollment available to all high school students in its vast and largely rural service area in Kern County. A strategy for equity, the [...]
Ram Ready: Fresno City College
The Beginning
FCC’s new student welcome day — Ram Ready — is a collaboration of the college relations, student activities, and business offices, instructional and counseling faculty, outreach, student [...]
Dual Enrollment and Guided Pathways Converge for Equity
A Case Study
Bakersfield College is leading a sea change. Collaborating with numerous partners across Kern County, the college aims to enable every high school student in its vast [...]
Bakersfield College: Collaborating to Deepen and Broaden College Access
Bakersfield College aims for every high school student in its vast service area to have the opportunity to enroll in college courses while in grades 9 through 12. Hundreds already [...]
CLP Develops Design Thinking for the Community College Context
Education leaders are increasingly turning to design thinking as a method for re-envisioning their work and reform practices and for tackling the knottiest challenges on their campuses. Career Ladders Project [...]