Guided Pathways

Welcome to Seattle Centrals College's Guided Pathways page.

Guided Pathways in collaboration with colleagues across Seattle Colleges, centers student voices through an aligned, comprehensive, systemic approach to student success and anti-racist work. 

Guided Pathways Principles:

• Addresses the urgent large-scale changes needed to improve student success, learning, retention, completion and closing equity gaps.
• Promotes accountability through continuous reflection, assessment, and organizational improvement.
• Engages collaborative interdisciplinary and interdepartmental approaches.
• Redesigns structures, practices, and policies to improve students’ experiences and educational outcomes.
• Advances student success by removing barriers and confusion through a strategic integration of our systems, services, and instruction.

The Guided Pathways approach has been championed by the American Association of Community Colleges and by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges. The Washington State Guided Pathways Advisory Committee's vision is to implement Guided Pathways in order to "advance racial, social, and economic justice by achieving equitable student aspiration, access, economic progress, and educational and career attainment."

The reason why so many colleges are adopting the Guided Pathways approach is simple: many of the students who attend our schools do not complete their programs. This reality disproportionally affects students of color, first generation students, and students from historically underrepresented communities. 

Guided Pathways Work Groups

Workgroups helped launch Guided Pathways work. Many of the workgroups have since sunsetted as we have successfully institutionalized the work. For questions on Guided Pathways or if you're looking to get involved, contact Serena Manzo, Executive Director at Serena.Manzo@seattlecolleges.edu