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With support from our generous funders and partners, the Success Center offers a robust set of services and expertise to help Ohio’s community colleges strategically scale and sustain guided pathways and other student success reforms. These services align with state Campus Completion Plans and the national Completion by Design Loss/Momentum framework.

Our strategy uses critical milestones in a student’s pathway – from initial connection, entry, and progress in college through completion and successful entry to the workforce or transition to a 4-year institution – as key priority areas to connect Success Center resources to larger college reform efforts.

Forging Ahead: Faculty Leadership in Ohio’s Guided Pathways

October 2023

Hundreds of colleges nationwide are undertaking reforms across the four pillars of the Community College Research Center’s guided pathways model, which reduces costly complexity and streamlines students’ experience through structured choices, targeted support and clearer learning outcomes to improve completion, transfer success and competitive employment outcomes. While some were already engaged in foundational reforms, Ohio’s community colleges committed to scaling guided pathways in 2016 with the support of OACC’s Success Center. The colleges doubled implementation between 2018-2022 and have adopted Jobs for the Future’s Guided Career Pathways model, with its more explicit focus on economic mobility and equity, to shape the next phase of pathways innovation in Ohio.

Strategic engagement of faculty—higher education’s biggest lever for impact—is vital to the successful scaling of guided pathways to benefit all students. Yet, the extent to which faculty are brought in to the reform process—at stages where they can offer consequential input—varies among colleges and leaders in the guided pathways and student success movement. Colleges must develop an intentional plan for faculty engagement.

Forging Ahead Report

Developing Successful Dual Enrollment Models at Ohio’s Community Colleges

The Success Center for Ohio Community Colleges developed this series of case studies to highlight strong CCP models that represent a sampling of the good work underway in college-K12 partnerships across the state. The case studies illuminate what it takes to develop, launch and grow a CCP initiative—and how to adapt to changing circumstances.

The five colleges featured are geographically diverse and represent both urban and rural communities. Collectively, they serve thousands of CCP students of all backgrounds, abilities and interests—and those students are succeeding in their college-level courses. With transformative impact on students and communities, these colleges’ CCP programs are helping students to:

  • Chart a path to a college degree and rewarding career;
  • Develop in-demand skills;
  • Pass college-level courses, boosting their academic confidence and resiliency;
  • Earn college credits, helping them achieve a certificate or degree faster and at lower cost;
  • Enroll in college at high rates—often at the college that delivered their CCP coursework; and
  • Make valuable connections with area employers and industry experts.

The CCP models profiled sprang from communities’ recognition of both the need to better equip more students to succeed and the opportunity CCP presents to change the paradigm for college and career preparation. In these communities, earlier access to college-level coursework, combined with strong support, is changing students’ perceptions about their readiness and ability to succeed in college—and thereby changing life trajectories.

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