From Goals to Graduation to Post-Completion Success: Why Every Student Needs an Educational Plan
Based on research from “More Essential Than Ever” and other recent research, this brief shows how educational plans convert abstract choices into personalized roadmaps in order to improve student persistence, timely program completion, and long-term career success.
Guided Pathways Next Frontiers: Scale of Adoption Assessment
This tool and accompanying guide are designed to help community colleges assess the extent to which they have implemented at scale key practices for strengthening guided pathways, as laid out in CCRC’s recent book.
Unlocking Opportunity: Progress Moving More Students Toward Good Jobs
This report details promising early effects of reform at ten colleges participating in the Unlocking Opportunity network and provides recommendations for how community colleges can strengthen program value and help more students access good jobs and bachelor’s degrees.
Planning Student Paths to Post-Completion Success: A Guide for Using the Community College Program Mapper
This guide introduces the Community College Program Mapper—an Excel-based data tool that helps colleges identify where students lack clear, goal-aligned plans and take action to strengthen pathways to post-completion success.
Unlocking Opportunity: Eight Strategies for Community Colleges to Improve Post-Completion Outcomes
This practice guide builds on the work of colleges in the Unlocking Opportunity Network by offering practical strategies that can help more students graduate with credentials that lead directly to good jobs or transfer and successful attainment of a bachelor’s degree.