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CLP senior director Luis Chavez joins LULAC leadership

Luis has dedicated his career to increasing equity on community college campuses and providing Latinx students the support they need to realize their educational goals. Before joining CLP, Luis led training and professional development for 16 years at the Puente Project, where he now chairs the boar... Read More

Fresno City College goes to college

As part of its Guided Pathways inquiry, Fresno City College sent teams to three other California community colleges and three campuses of CUNY, the City University of New York. Learn more from this post about why FCC made these visits—facilitated by Career Ladders Project—how the college prepare... Read More

“GP Stories” about equity-minded approaches to redesign

Required remedial math and English classes once served as a barrier to many of California’s community college students, and the problem disproportionately affected students of color, non-native speakers of English, and other groups underrepresented in higher education. Depending on their results o... Read More

CSU’s proposed changes to math requirements will hurt underrepresented students

California State University’s Board of Trustees is considering a proposal to require high school students to complete a fourth year of math to qualify for admission. The proposal itself has not been made public, but the change will be discussed at the next trustee meeting, July 23-24.... Read More

Engaging the whole campus in Guided Pathways redesign was the focus of LA / OC event

At our first-ever multi-location webinar, practitioners across Orange and Los Angeles counties shared practices and ideas.    Here is a PDF of the presentations given at the event, and here is a video of the event.   Focused on engaging the whole campus in Guided Pathways work, the May 7 “l... Read More

Guided Pathways stories

Career Ladders Project offers numerous tools for colleges to use in redesigning their programs and structures. Each college faces different challenges and opportunities, depending on a variety of factors. The following one-page stories, grouped by topic, illustrate some of the approaches colleges ar... Read More

San Diego and Imperial colleges! A Guided Pathways workshop is coming this month

Practitioners from community colleges in San Diego and across California will share their experiences implementing Guided Pathways on Friday, Feb. 22.  To join this full-day regional intensive in San Diego’s Mission Valley, register here. In small-group discussions, participants will learn s... Read More

LA and South Central Coast colleges! Join us for a regional Guided Pathways workshop on Feb. 4

Experienced practitioners from colleges across California will talk about their work on Guided Pathways in this full-day event, called “Ready. Set. Design. Accelerating Guided Pathways to the Next Level,” at the Marriott Los Angeles Burbank Airport. To join, register here. Small-group discussio... Read More

Achieving equity through dual enrollment

Here are the materials from our convening on Nov. 30: The presentation by Joel Vargas and Linda Collins The Venn diagram of participants’ thoughts on the value proposition of dual enrollment JFF’s and CLP’s research on the current landscape for dual enrollment (and brief case studi... Read More

Career Advancement Academies: Lessons for Equity in Guided Pathways

The Career Advancement Academies at more than 30 California community colleges offer concrete examples of how to ensure equity for all students, and a new report from Career Ladders Project and Equal Measure outlines how they can be applied in Guided Pathways reforms. Established in 2007, with sta... Read More