Guided Pathways Demystified: Exploring Ten Commonly Asked Questions about Implementing Pathways 

Dr. Rob Johnstone, Founder and President, NCII

College leaders and practitioners know the completion agenda is here to stay. Perhaps the most promising movement explored in the past five years to achieve our completion goals centers on providing students “guided pathways” to success. This paper explores 10 of the most commonly asked questions about guided pathways collected by Rob Johnstone and his colleagues across the country over the past five years. The paper shares Rob’s thinking about why these important questions may actually lead us to focus on guided pathways more, not less.

Guided Pathways Demystified II: Addressing 10 New Questions as the Movement Gains Momentum

Dr. Rob Johnstone, Founder and President, NCII

Feedback from the field after Guided Pathways Demystified I was released was that it helped colleges start and/or evolve conversations about the guided pathways movement on their campuses.  Since the publication of GPDM1, feedback from the field has shifted to a host of new questions about guided pathways that are more focused on implementation.  This is a great sign for the guided pathways movement, and in this paper, Rob Johnstone & Kelley Karandjeff explore these ten more implementation-focused questions about guided pathways.