Institute Objectives

Institute #2: Career and Transfer Pathways Objectives:

  1. Reinforce the case for pathways reforms and the central emphasis on achieving equity.
  2. Encourage colleges to better align their programs with career-path jobs of economic importance to their region.
  3. Help colleges better enable students to transfer seamlessly and easily to baccalaureate institutions with minimal loss of community college credits toward a degree in the student’s major field of study.
  4. Strengthen student-facing online and print information to help them make informed choices about their career and education pathways.
  5. Identify and address organizational challenges involved in aligning pathways with transfer and employment.
  6. Better align “academic transfer” and “workforce” programs to help transfer students build workforce skills and workforce students earn degrees, including bachelor and graduate degrees.
  7. Produce draft action plans for continuing work toward full alignment of all academic and career pathways with transfer and employment with equity in mind.
  8. Continue building an engaged learning network among Pathways colleges.