Email:
GuidedPathways@cuesta.edu
The Guided Pathways frame work is an integrated, inclusive approach to reimagine and comprehensively transform the Cuesta student experience. This effort involves reshaping the college as an equitable institution that is more effective and more efficient at serving our diverse student body with its diverse aspirations and its diverse social and academic preparations.
Using a student-centered approach and seeing the institution through a student lens, the transformation engages the college as an inquiry-based, networked community to create an equity-driven institution as competent in student completion as it is in student access.
The basis of the transformation effort is to utilize a Guided Pathways Framework to make the student experience more intentional, supported, and clear. We are constructing processes and interventions to help guide and support each student--regardless of preparation – to reach their self-defined completion effectively and efficiently.
"But don't pathways limit students' ability to explore?"
Rather than restricting students’ options, the Guided Pathways Framework is meant to help students make more informed decisions without limiting students' options. Students will always be free to "explore". In the Guided Pathways Framework they will have a structure in which to explore and a better understanding of the implications of that exploration.