Guided Pathways

What is Guided Pathways?

"Guided Pathways is an integrated framework that supports institutional transformation with student success at the center based upon a structured experience, as articulated in Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success. Guided Pathways builds institutional capacity to define clear and coherent pathways for degree completion and to ensure learning while on the pathways, leading to completion of a postsecondary degree or credential." (American Association of Colleges & Universities)

Career Pathways* at LCC

The Four Pillars

  • Mapping pathways to student end goals
  • Helping students choose and enter a pathway
  • Keeping students on the path
  • Ensuring that students are learning

 

Funding for Guided Pathways

Lower Columbia College was selected along with four other institutions in 2018 to receive $500,000 over five-years from College Spark Washington to implement the Guided Pathways approach. The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges matched the grant, bringing the five-year total to $1 million.

The 2019-20 legislative session produced HB 2158, which included an allocation of $32.1 million for implementation of Guided Pathways across all 34 community and technical colleges in the state. 

Patrick Henry Community College Presentation - Fall 2018

"We have spent the past 55 years making sure our students are college ready. We need to spend the next five making sure our colleges are student ready." - Dr. Greg Hodges, Fall 2018

Guided Pathways Resources

Top picks for faculty

Advising

Career Preparation for Students

Co-requisites and Developmental Education

Data

Note: students in the Guided Pathways cohorts include first-time, first-ever, post-secondary credential-seeking students. They must be new to the institution and system; transfers-in and returning students are included if they've earned less than 10 college credits in the system; current and former basic skills students who transition to workforce or transfer are included if they start with less than 10 college level credits earned in the system. Running Start students are excluded from the cohort. The Year 1 College Math point refers to the first five credits of college-level math taken, regardless of program requirements.

Guided Pathways - Early Adopter Stories

Guided Pathways Framework

Holistic Integrated Student Support Systems

Math Reform

Program Pathway Mapping

Technology

Assessing Technology for Guided Pathways

Advising and Integrated Student Support Technology Resources

Research - General

Videos

 

*Also known as meta-majors

Guided Pathways

  Kristen Finnel/VP Instruction

   (360) 442-2501
  kfinnel@lowercolumbia.edu

  Sue Orchard/VP Student Services

   (360) 442-2301
  sorchard@lowercolumbia.edu 

  Wendy Hall/VP Effectiveness & College Relations

   (360) 442-2491
  whall@lowercolumbia.edu