Los Angeles High Impact Information Technology, Entertainment & Entrepreneurship, Communications Hubs (LA HI-TECH)is a consortium of eight community colleges, including Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles [...]
Exploring Alternative High School and Community College Partnerships
In recent years, California has made important investments to aid public high schools and community colleges to improve students’ transitions to and through postsecondary education, with a specific emphasis on [...]
Bringing Student Voices to Guided Pathways Inquiry and Design
Findings from Student Focus Groups at Two California Community Colleges
Between March and April 2017, Career Ladders Project (CLP) staff facilitated 16 focus groups with a total of 137 [...]
Orange County K-14 Career Pathways
Reimagining the Role of Counselors in Supporting Student College and Career Success
Through generous support from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office’s SB 1070 Career Pathways Program and the [...]
Big Ideas in Workforce Innovation: A Three-Part Series
The California Workforce Development Board (State Board) has released a three-part series, Big Ideas in Workforce Innovation. The Career Ladders Project documented emerging lessons from key State Board initiatives that promote creative [...]
Building Bridges to College and Careers Through Public Education and Workforce System Collaboration
Lessons from California’s Youth Manufacturing Skills Pilot
In 2013, the California Workforce Development Board (State Board) granted funds to four partnerships of local workforce development boards (Local Boards) and [...]
Career Advancement Academies
Insights into Contextualized Teaching and Learning
Launched in 2007, the Career Advancement Academies are designed to enable underserved Californians – typically first in their families to attend college, low-income, [...]
Establishing Patient/ Health Navigator Programs for Education, Employment and Career Advancement
A California Community College Case Study
The nation’s first Patient Navigator program was developed in 1990 for poor and underserved patients receiving treatment for cancer at the Harlem Hospital [...]