Coastline Pathways

Coastline Pathways is an equity-based mindset and practice to facilitate student success.

What is the Coastline Pathways Model?

Coastline Pathways is an integrated, institution-wide approach to student success.

The Coastline Pathways model is intentionally designed to provide clear, coherent, and structured educational experiences for students. The components of Coastline Pathways are designed with the intention to lead each student effectively and efficiently from entry into the College to the attainment of high-quality postsecondary credentials leading to careers with value in the labor market.

Components of Coastline Pathways

Student Life Cycle

Clarify

Clarifying the path focuses on simplifying students' choices with effective program maps developed by faculty to provide students a clear pathway to complete their educational goals.

Enter

Entering the path helps students explore academic and career options from the beginning of their college experience and aligns foundational skills coursework with a student's program of study.

Persist

Staying on the path utilizes academic and student support services throughout students' programs to promote student learning and persistence.

Succeed

Ensuring students are learning focuses on the continuous assessment and enhancement of programs, instructional practices, and student support services which promotes innovation, excellence, and effectiveness throughout the college.

Impact of Coastline Pathways

In 2020, Coastline College documented the progress of the student experience through guided pathways:

Coastline Pathways Report 2020

Resources

• Updates

  Updates

  Advancing Equity through Pathways

  On Tuesday, July 14th, the Coastline Pathways design teams - which consisted of faculty, classified professionals and managers - met with Dr. Rob Johnstone and Dr. Alison Kadlec to explore, more deeply, how to advance equity through Guided Pathways. Rob shared eleven Guides that have been developed by equity leaders across the county:

  • Guide 1 features an institutional self-assessment
  • Guides 2-4 examine equity issues in the context of culture and leadership
  • Guides 5-11 explore equity issues in the student experience.

  The Coastline Pathways design teams selected three areas of focus:

  • Guide 5 - Supporting Students from Application to the First Day of Classes
  • Guide 6 - Creating Student Connection and Belonging upon Entry
  • Guide 9 - Reframing Classroom Instruction to Engage a Diverse Community of Students

  These Guides will form the basis of three college-wide events in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 to advance equity through Guided Pathways efforts. Using the Guides to inform our practice would greatly strengthen our work in advancing equity.

  To learn more about advancing equity through Guided Pathways, check out the National Center for Inquiry and Improvement.

• Past Events

  Coastline Pathways Past Events

  Date	Event
  Aug. 27, 2017	A2I2 Meeting 1: All College Meeting focused on Coastline Pathways
  Sep. 28, 2017	IEPI Coastline Pathways Self-Assessment Workshop
  Oct. 6, 2017	Webinar: Best Practices for College Engagement in Coastline Pathways
  Nov. 15, 2017	Submit College Self-Assessment
  Nov. 21, 2017	A2I2 Meeting 2: College-wide Coastline Pathways Focus Groups
  Nov. 22, 2017	A2I2 Meeting 2: Coastline Pathways Planning Discussion
  Dec. 1, 2017	IEPI Coastline Pathways Visit
  Feb. 8, 2018	Webinar: Designing Student-Centered Pathways that Scale
  Mar. 13, 2018	Enter Work Group - Chair: Bruce Keeler
  Mar. 15, 2018	Clarify Work Group - Chair: Joycelyn Groot
  Feb. 20, 2018	IEPI Coastline Pathways Work Plan Workshop
  Mar. 20, 3018	Succeed Work Group - Chair: Josh Levenshus
  Mar. 20, 2018	Definition Work Group - Chair: Vince
  Mar. 21, 2018	A2I2 Visit
  Mar. 21, 2018	A2I2 Meeting 3: Visioning for the College
  Mar. 22, 2018	Pathways Steering Committee: Report out from Clarify-Enter-Persist-Succeed
  Mar. 30, 2018	Submit College Work Plan
  May 8, 2018	A2I2 Meeting 4
  Oct. 5, 2018	A2I2 Meeting 5
  Dec. 4, 2018	Coastline Pathways Town Hall
  Dec. 7, 2018	Coastline Pathways Town Hall
  Dec. 11, 2018	Coastline Pathways Town Hall
  TBD	Persist Work Group - Chair: Stephen Barnes

Guided Pathways Documents

Contact Us

Shelly Blair, PhD

Dean of Innovative Learning

Coastline Pathways Implementation Lead

sblair12@coastline.edu

Josh Levenshus, MA

Coastline Pathways Faculty Coordinator

Communication Studies Professor

jlevenshus@coastline.edu

Kimberly Bui

Coastline Pathways Program Coordinator

kbui1@coastline.edu

Juan Ignacio Peña

Visual Projects Coordinator

jpea1@coastline.edu