Flight Paths for Student Career and Academic Pathways

Flight Paths for Student Career and Academic Pathways

Guided Pathways Help Students Reach Their Educational Goals By Creating structured program maps that lead to a career Help student choose and enter their pathway Help students stay on their path Ensure their learning

Students Knew They Should Choose A Major But They Did NOT Know: How to find information about program options How career interests related to majors Degree and transfer requirements Job opportunities in their field within their community

Students Specifically Wanted To Know: -Community College Research Center What are my career options? What are the educational pathways to these careers? What will I need to take? And will the courses transfer to a 4 year university? How long will it take? And how much will it cost?

Student Report They Want To Receive Career Information: Online and more thorough career information Earlier & more interactive career information in their college experience Link between programs of study and career opportunities

Essential Components Of Guided Pathways Informed Choice: Choices becomes more informed, deliberate and simpler Clustering programs into broad “Career & Academic Pathways” (flight paths) makes decisions simpler for students. Students match their skills & interests to broad academic paths that lead to careers, e.g., 1st year student choose Business Career Pathway; 2nd year choose specific major- Accounting

Essential Components of Guided Pathways Whole Programs of Study are Mapped: Students choose coherent programs of study, NOT random, individual courses. Students make the “big choice” of academic majors or programs and the courses sequences are laid out for them. A clear path to on-time completion is prepared for them semester by semester all the way to graduation.

What Our Students Current See On our Website In our Catalog

Academics (website) Maybe I’ll see what programs LPC has Where do I go from here? How about this link?

Degrees–AA, AS, AA-T, AS-T That’s a lot of degrees what’s an AA-T, and AS-T. How are they different from an AA or AS?

Certificates—CA, CP, CL, § More? How Wonder are these what kind of job I different from can get with degrees? any of these?

Programs (Catalog) This isn’t much clearer and I still don’t see anything about careers

Instructions Form cross functional teams: Classified professionals, instructional faculty, counseling faculty, administrators. Assign a note taker to capture the discussion. Assign a presenter to share out your career pathways for Gallery Walk. Begin clustering LPC degrees & disciplines into career pathways that make sense to your group.

Discussion Questions Rationale used for clustering the disciplines & degrees into career pathways? Number & name of career pathways? What about disciplines that could be in two or more career pathways? What about disciplines that haven’t identified career pathways? What about undecided students?

Examples of Career Pathways Sierra College & Bakersfield https://academics.sierracollege.edu https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics/pathways https://www.dvc.edu/academics/explore.html