Guided Pathways

Students depend on California Community Colleges (CCC) for education, career training and social mobility while the State of California depends on CCC for economic improvement and to close the skills gap.

The CCC serve hundreds of thousands of students annually, but persistence, graduation, achievement, and equity rates denote that the colleges are not delivering on their promises of a two-year education.

• 48% of CCC students left without a credential or failed to transfer after six years.
• Of those students who do complete their community college education, earning an associate degree takes them an average of 5.2 years.
• More than 40% of California Community College students are 25 years or older, yet many college are geared toward graduating high school students.
• The CCC system serves more African American and Latinx students than the total undergraduate enrollment of the University of California but achievement and equity gaps stubbornly persist for underserved populations.
• High-need regions like the Inland Empire are not served equitably.

Guided Pathways provide a framework for improving completion by addressing equity, social mobility, and economic health through four pillars:

• Clarify: Create clear curricular pathways to employment and further education.
• Intake: Help students choose and enter their pathway.
• Support: Help students stay on their path.
• Learning: Ensure learning happens with intentional outcomes.

This framework provides all students with a set of clear course-taking patterns that promotes better enrollment decisions and prepares students for future success. The framework also integrates support services in ways that make it easier for students to get the help they need during every step of their community college experience.

Below are slide decks and recordings from Guided Pathways webinars.

1. CA Guided Pathways 2 Kickoff: Recording
2. Building a Big Tent for Leading Change: Slides
3. Embedding Active and Experiential Learning in Online Teaching Environments: Slide Decks
4. Creating a Sense of Belonging and Connection with Metamajors: Slide Decks
5. Designing Metamajors to Address Equity Gaps: Slide Deck
6. Holistic Student Support: Slide Decks
7. Student Belonging and Psychological Safety: Slides
8. Student Financial Stability: Slides
9. Operationalizing Student Support Redesign: Slides | Recording
10. Holistic Student Support: Slides | Recording
11. Shifting the Enrollment Management Conversation: Slides | Recording
12. Converting Short-Term Coursetakers to Graduates: Slides | Recording
13. Labor Market Data: Slides | Recording
14. College Highlights: Slides | Recording
15. Exploring Post-Graduation Success: Recording
16. Designing Inclusive Pathways for Adult Learners: Slides | Recording

Moreno Valley College performed a self-assessment of our current services, reach, and our progress toward implementing Guided Pathways. This self-assessment, with feedback from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) will provide MVC with a clear work plan to fulfilling the requirements IEPI Guided Pathways initiative.

• Moreno Valley College Work Plan, Implementation Timeline, and Allocation Summary
• Moreno Valley College Work Plan Summary
• Key Performance Indicators Evaluation and First-Time College Student Demographics
• Scale of Adoption Assessment, 2021-2022
• 2023 Guided Pathways Annual Report
• 2022-26 Guided Pathways Work Plan

• Survey: School Structure - Fall 2019

MVC's self-assessment and workplan focuses on evaluating and addressing four Key Performance Indicators and fourteen Key Elements:

• Key Performance Indicators (View Evaluation)
  • Participation (first-time college students)
  • Transferrable math and English completion
  • First-term momentum (college credits earned)
  • First-year momentum (college credits earned)
• Key Elements (View Evaluation)
  • Inquiry
    • Cross-functional inquiry
    • Shared metrics
    • Integrated planning
  • Design
    • Inclusive decision-making structures
    • Intersegmental alignment
    • Guided major and career exploration opportunities
    • Improved basic skills
    • Clear program requirements
  • Implementation
    • Proactive and integrated academic and student supports
    • Integrated technology infrastructure
    • Strategic Professional Development
    • Aligned Learning Outcomes
    • Assessing and documenting learning
    • Applied learning opportunities

MVC has been allocated a total of $937,496 from the IEPI Guided Pathways program over the course of the implementation project. Should less colleges than anticipated participate, this allocation may increase. The allocation will be distributed over a five-year period as follows:

• Year 1: $234,366
• Year 2: $281,239
• Year 3: $234,366
• Year 4: $93,746
• Year 5: $93,746

Moreno Valley College is in the process of planning and implementing Guided Pathways. This planning process has included four areas of focus:

• Degree and certificate mapping
• Connecting fields of interest/study to early career exploration
• College restructuring and growth
• Guided Pathways assessment and planing

To learn about how the Guided Pathways workgroup is identifying and addressing these areas, view the Guided Pathways Workgroup Comprehensive Summary below. Seven schools have been proposed to consolidate multiple fields of interest, as well as an explorer plan for students undecided but considering a field of interest.

• View Fall 2018 MVC Guided Pathways Comprehensive Summary
• View 2019 MVC School Structure Survey

All documentation developed by MVC during Guided Pathways self-assessment, planning, and implementation can be found below. Files are in PDF format unless otherwise noted.

Self-Assessment and Planning

• Moreno Valley College Work Plan, Implementation Timeline, and Allocation Summary
• Moreno Valley College Work Plan Summary
• Key Performance Indicators Evaluation and First-Time College Student Demographics
• Guided Pathways Workgroup Comprehensive Summary - Fall 2018

Implementation and Progress

• Approved: MVC School Structure
• Approved: MVC Fields of Interest
• Draft: Student Success Team Roles
• Survey Results: School Structure - Fall 2019

Presentations and Meeting Slides

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