Institute #3 objectives:

Reinforce the case for pathways reforms and the central emphasis on achieving equity.  

Help colleges better enable students to explore career and college options, choose and successfully enter a pathway suited to their interest and aptitudes, and complete the pathway as effectively and efficiently as possible through these changes: 

• Integrate career and college exploration into the college intake experience to help students choose a pathway that fits with their interests and aptitudes as soon as possible. 
• Redesign advising and integrate technology to support students in choosing a pathway and to monitor student progress through pathways, providing frequent feedback and support as needed. 
• Fundamentally rethink developmental education, integrating accelerated and contextualized academic skill development within the college’s main areas of study/meta-majors. 
• Integrate field-appropriate academic and non-academic supports into critical college-level gatekeeper courses in the college’s main areas of study. 
• Identify and address challenges involved in organizational redesign and the changing roles of faculty and advisors as colleges revamp their processes for student intake, advising, and monitoring of student progress through pathways.
• Produce draft action plans for continuing work on redesign of student intake, progress monitoring, and support processes, with equity in mind.
• Continue building an engaged learning network among Pathways colleges.