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Guided Pathways
Create the Best Sequence of Courses to Complete Your Education
Guided Pathways is a unique and comprehensive approach to ensure that you will stay on track, receive the support you personally need, and see a clear, achievable pathway to graduation. We work closely with students and faculty. Guided Pathways is an evidence-based program that comprehensively addresses the conditions needed for students to thrive and complete their goals, and it closes any achievement gaps. This will enable you to efficiently complete your certificate or degree program. Together, we create a clear, intentional, and well-sequenced curriculum and program, and you are always at the center of this process.
The Four Pillars of Guided Pathways
Clarify the path
Enter the path
Stay on the path
Ensure Learning
The Key Elements of Guided Pathways
- Programs that are fully mapped out and aligned with further education and career advancement while also providing structure or guided exploration for undecided students.
- Redesigning and integrating basic skills and developmental education classes to accelerate students to college-level classes.
- Structured Onboarding Processes including improved placement tests and co-requisite instruction that provide students with clear, actionable, and usable information they need to get off to the right start in college.
- Instructional support and co-curricular activities aligned with classroom learning and career interests.
- Responsive student tracking systems aligned with interventions and resources to help students stay on the pathway, persist, and progress.
- Proactive academic and career advising from the start through completion and/or transfer, with assigned point of contact at each stage.
Guided Pathways resources
Discover more about Guided Pathways at Taft College and beyond.
Guided Pathways Oversight Committee
Vicki Jacobi
CHAIR
Articulation Officer/ Counselor
Amar Abbott
Member
High-Tech Access Specialist
Darcy Bogle
Member
Counselor
Salvador Jimenez Murguia
Member
Associate Professor, Sociology
Juana Rangel Escobedo
Member
Counselor
Cecilia Alvarado
Member
Dean of Student Success
Lori Sundgren
Member
Pre-Collegiate Success Coordinator
Damon Bell
Member
Interim Vice President, Student Services