Pathway Teams for Faculty & Staff

What are FCC's Pathway Teams?

FCC has grouped all our majors into one of five Ram Pathways based on similar courses, student interests, and career opportunities. Every student is assigned to a pathway based on their chosen major at FCC.

There are five pathway teams, one for each of FCC's Ram Pathways. A pathway team is comprised of counselors, instructors, staff, and administrators specifically knowledgeable about the programs and services related to that pathway.

Pathway teams are designed to improve the student experience with intentional student engagement activities and easy access to dedicated counselors and other team members.

Pathway teams are also intended to improve the communication and collaboration between instruction and student support services to work together as a unit to help students reach their goals.

Intended Outcomes

Improve student completion rates by intervening with students at key benchmarks along their educational journey.
Close equity gaps by providing intentional supports to students who may need them the most.
Decrease the time to degree and number of excess units taken by students in completing their goals by providing clear program maps and student educational plans.
Improve the communication and collaboration between instruction and student support services, to work together as one unit to help students reach their goals

Measurable Successes

The goals for each pathway team beginning in 2019-2020 and continuing each year so far are:

Improve student completion of transfer-level math and English courses
Improve Retention and Persistence rates for Men of Color, particularly African American men
Increase student completion of ADT/AS/AA and CA

FCC Pathway Teams are one component of our Guided Pathways implementation. See our Ram Pathways webpage for more details about Ram Pathways for students.

Recommendations/Ideas to Consider

Keep the focus of teams on case management for students, create task forces for curriculum topics/other GP work.
Schedule all meetings for the year in advance.
Have a core team of Managers, Deans, and Leads to meet to plan whole team meetings.
Hold strategic quarterly meetings for the whole team designed for each pathway to discuss pathway programs, data, outcomes, and student needs.
Have dedicated time planned in weekly schedules for special/categorical program to function in team.
Develop yearly calendar of contacts/calls/emails/activities.
Hold meeting of all intervention leads on each team at least monthly.
Include relationship building to include pathway instructors from other divisions
Use six factors of student success (Directed, Engaged, Focused, Nurtured, Connected, Valued) to keep focus on student perspective.
Focus on what is common among all teams as to why they are all together - help teams work well together.
Instead of counting all the students served, focus on the students that need the most interventions, be intentional.
Work with the state to lift restrictions on categorical programs so staff can work with students and activities outside of their special programs.

Resources for Colleges

Team Member Roles - see table below
Success Teams and Guided Pathways - TBD

Team Roles and Types of Responsibilities

SS Admin	Instructional Dean	Team Lead	Counselor Liaison	Intervention Lead	Spec Services*	Instructor/Dept Chair	Student/Peer
Attend all planning and team meetings	Attend all planning and team meetings	Attend all planning and team meetings	Attend all planning and team meetings	Attend all team meetings	Attend all team meetings	Attend all team meetings	Attend all team meetings when possible
Organize planning and team meetings	Facilitate implementation and conversation of instructional student success strategies, (units per semester, course offerings/schedules, curriculum clean-up)	Communicate regularly to team members	Work with Team Lead to plan all team activities/student events	Participate in Early Alert strategy team	Participate in team activities/student events when possible	Participate in conversations for improving student journey through programs	Participate in team activities/student events
Oversee budgets and resources	Facilitate instructor involvement and sharing in teams	Lead team to plan student activities/events	Work with Lead to ensure completion of all tasks	Organize Early Alert interventions for team	See students when possible by pathway	Participate in planning team activities/student events	Bring student engagement perspectives to the team discussions
Facilitate SS participation in team activities/events	Communicate to other divisions affected by team activities	Understand and communicate team data	See students by pathway caseload	Guide/support instructors on using Early Alert	Communicate to special program/office about team programs and activities	Communicate student needs and curriculum changes to team	Be a way for students to connect to resources in pathway (mentor)
Support team to develop topics for specialized training/PD	Support team to develop topics for specialized training/PD	Monitor progress toward reaching team goals	Attend selected instructional department meetings/communicate with instructors	Strategize campus probation interventions/participate in Probation Advisory Team	Complete Early Alert, probation follow-up services, and "reach outs" for assigned students	Coordinate instructors communicating to students about timely interventions	-
Monitor team goals and progress	Monitor team goals and progress	Organize student "reach outs" for team	Participate in course/program discussions to improve student success	Organize communications to students and team regarding Early Alert/Probation interventions	-	Support students with mentoring and connections within pathway	-
-	-	-	Communicate to campus counselors regarding team activities and student success strategies for programs	See students by pathway	-	-	-

*Special Services Responsibilities Specific to Department/Office

Special Cohort Counselor/Advisor (EOPS, DSPS, CalWORKs, Veterans, etc.)	Financial Aid	Tutorial Coordinator	CEC	Transfer	Student Activities
Scheduled time for pathway meetings and contacting students for pathway team	Troubleshoot Financial Aid needs of student by Pathway	Facilitate tutorial services for pathway students	Take career counseling and employment referrals by pathway	Be a resource on transfer for the whole team	Organize students connecting to clubs related to their pathway
Inform/train team on resources for students	Be a contact for team in the pathway	Be a contact for students and team by pathway	Train and coordinate others in pathway to provide basic CEC services to students	Connect team to transfer data and train team for efficient transfer planning	Bring student engagement perspectives to the team discussions

FCC Employee Pathway Resources

SharePoint Links

Programs by Pathway

SP21 Retreat Documents

FCC Team Members