Guided Pathways
At Fullerton College we believe that Guided Pathways is equity work. We began our Pathways journey in September of 2017. Our discussions and inquiries have included thousands of students and hundreds of faculty, staff, and managers. Our goal is simple: We want all students that choose to become Hornets to have an equitable experience and increased success.
The Pathways Steering Committee (PSC) was created to organize and oversee campus work on Guided Pathways. This Committee is co-chaired by Dr. Dani Wilson, Dean of the Library/Learning Resources, Instructional Support Programs and Services, and Dr. Matt Taylor, Department Coordinator for the Department of Communication Studies. The PSC is composed of eight instructional faculty, eight managers, four classified professionals, and two students. The PSC reports to both the Faculty Senate and the President’s Advisory Council.
The PSC created four work groups to oversee the implementation of Guided Pathways at Fullerton College. They include:
Work Group #1: Creating the Path
This work group is focused on defining the Hornet Pathways we will use to organize our over 200 academic programs on campus. Work Group #1 is also responsible for working with our academic programs to create clear two and three year curriculum maps. This work group is led by:
- Ana Tovar (Counseling)
- Marwin Luminarias (Curriculum Specialist)
- Martha Payan-Hernandez (Career and Technical Education)
- Kim Vandervort (English)
Click here for the work group #1 member list
Work Group #2: Becoming a Hornet
This work group is focused on helping prospective students become Hornets. This group is focused on improving the student experience from the first moment they think about coming to Fullerton College until their first day of class. For example, this work group is looking at campus outreach, the application process, financial aid, and registration. This work group is led by:
- Miguel Powers (English)
- Rolando Sanabria (Counseling)
- Melissa Serrato (Campus Communications)
- Deniz Fierro (Promise)
Work Group #3: Keeping Hornets on the Path
This work group is focused on helping students successfully complete their academic programs as efficiently as possible. For example, this work group is looking at Banner updates, early alert, student information management software, degree check, the first year experience, and guided exit. This work group is led by:
- Gary Graves (Business)
- Alexandria Rosales ( EOPS Counselor)
- Stephanie Rodriguez (Associated Students)
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Work Group #4 Ensuring Learning
This work group is focused on ensuring that our faculty are given the best tools and training to ensure that high impact teaching practices are being used to increase student success. This work group is also focused on helping inform the campus discussion and rewrite of our institutional and program learning outcomes. This work group is led by:
- Jeanne Costello (English)
- Deanna Smedley (Counseling)
- Jennifer Merchant (Career Center)
- Brandi Avila (Umoja)
Data Coaching
Data coaching plays a unique and vital role in improving teaching and learning and helping the College achieve its mission through the process of collaborative inquiry – a professional learning approach where members of a cross functional team express and test hypotheses and plan evidence-based thoughtful actions aimed at improving practices.
Data coaching is also considered to be an essential component of the Guided Pathways framework as a strategy for building data literacy needed for redesigning systems, processes, and practices around the student experience and for building capacity of student teams to access and use data. As an iterative process, data coaching supports implementation of the Guided Pathways framework at different stages of inquiry, design, and implementation. This work is led by:
- Gary Graves (Business)
- JP Gonzalez (Counseling: Student Support Services)
- Flor Huerta (Counseling: Counseling & Student Development)
- Chad Willis (Fine Arts)
- Danielle Fouquette (Humanities)
- Anya Shyrokova (Library)
- Nancy Ikeda (Mathematics)
- Roman De Jesus (Natural Sciences)
- Greg Aviles (Physical Education)
- Matt Tribbe (Social Sciences)
- Jay Seidel (Tech & Engineering)
Spring 2021 Guided Pathways Meetings
PSC Meetings
(1-2:30 pm)
Jan. 25, 2021
Feb. 22, 2021
Mar. 15, 2021
Apr. 19, 2021
May 17, 2021
GP Leadership
(8-9:30 am)
Jan. 11, 2021
Feb. 8, 2021
Mar. 8, 2021
Apr. 12, 2021
May 10, 2021
First Year Experience
(11-1 pm)
Feb. 9, 2021
Feb. 23, 2021
Mar. 9, 2021
Mar. 23, 2021
Apr. 13, 2021
Apr. 27, 2021
May 11, 2021
Guided Exit
(10-11 am)
Feb. 11, 2021
Feb. 25, 2021
Spring 2021 Workgroup Meetings
Workgroup 1
(1-3 pm)
Workgroup 2
(3-4:30 pm)
Workgroup 3
(1-2:30 pm)
Workgroup 4
(3:30-5 pm)
Feb. 8, 2021
Mar. 8, 2021
Apr. 12, 2021
May 10, 2021
Jan. 20, 2021
Feb. 3, 2021
Feb. 17, 2021
Mar. 3, 2021
Mar. 17, 2021
Apr. 7, 2021
Apr. 21, 2021
May 5, 2021
May 19, 2021
Feb. 1, 2021
Mar. 8, 2021
Mar. 22, 2021
Apr. 12, 2021
Apr. 26, 2021
May 10, 2021
Feb. 3, 2021 *A*
Feb. 17, 2021 *B*
Mar. 3, 2021 *A*
Mar. 17, 2021 *B*
Apr. 7, 2021 *A*
Apr. 21, 2021 *B*
May 5, 2021 *A*
May 19, 2021 *B*
Jun. 2, 2021 *A*
Jun. 16, 2021 *B*
Jul. 7, 2021 *A*
State Resources
The college is developing a localized Guided Pathways plan at the direction of the California Guided Pathways Project established by the State Chancellor’s Office. Many resources are available on the California Community College Guided Pathways website.
Pathways Steering Committee Members 2020-2021
Faculty
Alexandria Rosales
Ana Tovar
Arnette Edwards
Brandon Floerke
Cindy Zarske
Linda Kelly-Mandich
Matthew Taylor**
Miguel Powers
Managers
Brandi Avila
Dani Wilson**
Deniz Fierro
Eddie Roth
Elaine Lipiz Gonzalez
Ericka Adakai
Jennifer LaBounty
Jorge Gamboa
Rich Hartmann
Classified Professionals
Gregory Menchaca
Jennifer Merchant
Marwin Luminarias
Melissa Serrato
Students
Madison DeVries
Resource Members
Carlos Ayon
Gil Contreras
Joe Ramirez
José Ramón Nuñez
Lisa McPheron
Rod Garcia
**Committee co-chair