Mission and Core Values
Guided Pathways Mission
The °®¶¹´«Ã½ College Guided Pathways Initiative provides students opportunities to explore prospective majors and careers while still making progress towards their academic goals; it keeps equity at the core of our decision-making while understanding that improving academic and support services for underserved populations will also benefit all students; it proactively and holistically addresses students and their needs by offering wrap-around services, and it helps students to gain self-efficacy in navigating their educational journeys.
Guided Pathways Core Values
In order to ensure equity-focused, institutional change that will clarify pathways for students, help them enter and stay on the path, and ensure learning, we embrace the following core values:
- We embrace the institutional responsibility to be student-ready and to proactively assist students in obtaining necessary resources.
- We are dedicated to providing clear and direct information to students to “stop the bounce.â€
- We acknowledge and advocate for the multiple access points and varying educational goals that exist for students.
- We are committed to both listening to and hearing students’ stories, counting them as valuable experiences that must be considered both quantitatively and qualitatively in supporting student success.
- We aspire to create a culture of engagement, mutual respect and meaningful interaction that will benefit our entire campus community.
- We pledge to eliminate any unnecessary bureaucratic barriers that are within local control.
- We endorse and support our larger community, including our intersegmental partners, our local communities, and local businesses, upon whom we depend to help our students.