Pathways

The SUNY Guided Pathways Project helps New York state community colleges design and implement structured academic and career pathways at scale, for all students. Building on national research, led by the Community College Research Center and the American Association of Community Colleges, Pathways is designed to help increase completion rates and student achievement.

The SUNY Guided Pathways Project is an integrated, system-wide approach to student success. SUNY Broome joined the SUNY Guided Pathways Project as part of Cohort 3 in Fall 2021.

Guided Pathways: Planning, Implementation, Evaluation (pdf)

Want to learn more?

  • AACC Guided Pathways Resource Center
    This new website offers more than 300 tools and resources for colleges undertaking the challenging work of designing and implementing guided pathways, including a pathways coaching guide, a collection of tools for leaders, an engagement toolkit, and collections of materials from AACC Pathways Institutes.
  • Community College Research Center (CCRC)
    The Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University has conducted much of the seminal research on, and exploration of, guided pathways. CCRC has been a consistent partner to SUNY Guided Pathways Institutes.

Presentations

Gretchen Schmidt Presentation 12/16/2021


Download the slides (pdf)

Gretchen Schmidt Presentation at Spring 2022 Faculty Staff Assembly

SUNY Broome Pathways

Supported by a grant through SUNY, SUNY Broome Community College is engaged in the implementation of Pathways across the college, with the initial focus during 2021-2022 on clarifying the pathways for at least two of its academic programs. Clarification of pathways will include a reduction of general education and elective choices aligned with program learning outcomes and program end goals related to career/transfer. The Pathways Team is composed of faculty, staff, and administrators working together to examine current processes, programs, services, and data to develop large-scale transformational change at the college, aimed to boost student success. By focusing on the four pillars of Pathways: Clarifying the Path, Helping Students Get on a Path, Helping Students Stay on their Path, and Ensuring Students are Learning, the Pathways Team is working to help develop a sustainable process for wide-scale adoption of Pathways across the college with the goal to improve completion, transfer, and employment rates of our students, and equity within those outcomes

Leads

  • Dr. Penny Haynes, Executive Lead, Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • Dr. Carol Ross-Scott, Executive Lead, Vice President for Student Development and Chief Diversity Officer
  • Dr. Kimberly McLain, Co-Chair, Associate Vice President and Dean of Health Sciences and Institutional Effectiveness
  • Erin Frye, Co-Chair, Associate Professor, Business

Team

  • Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, Associate Vice President and Dean of Liberal Arts and Business & Professional Studies
  • Danielle Britton, Director of Workforce Development
  • Joanna Burd, Assistant Professor, Business Department
  • Julie Cooley, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
  • Brenda Dawe, Associate Professor/Chairperson of Music and Theatre Arts
  • Patricia Evans, Professor, Art & Design Department
  • Marty Guzzi, Registrar
  • Laura Hodel, Director of Student Financial Services
  • Heather Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Physical Education & Sport Studies
  • Ken Marble, Assistant Professor, Engineering Technologies
  • Dr. Christine Martey-Ochola, Interim Dean of STEM
  • Erin Marulli, Staff Associate, Student Retention
  • Maria Montemagno, Professor, Hospitality Department
  • Phyllis O’Donnell, Professor, Biology Department
  • Courtney O’Hagen, Associate Professor, Psychology & Human Services Department
  • Erin O’Hara Leslie, Associate Professor/Chairperson of Medical Assisting & Health Studies
  • Colleen Regan, Assistant Professor, Business Department
  • Tom Reid, Professor, Math Department
  • Beth Richards, Assistant Dean for Academic Services
  • Brittney Richardson, Staff Associate, Admissions
  • Venessa Rodriguez, Director, Educational Opportunity Program
  • Tim Skinner Associate Professor Communications & Media Department
  • Michael Stamets, Associate Dean of Hospitality and Culinary Event Center
  • Denise Wells, Professor, Business Information Technology
  • Sandy Wright, Professor, Business Information Technology Department

Pathways Redesign Programs

  • Chemical Dependency AAS
  • Chemical Dependency Certificate
  • Communication & Media Arts AS
  • Computer Information Systems AAS
  • Computer Technology AAS
  • Health Studies AAS
  • Human Services AS
  • Marketing, Management, and Sales AAS
  • Sport Studies AS
  • Visual Communication & Arts AS

  • Accounting AAS
  • Beat Production Recording and Certificate
  • Business Information Management AAS
  • Culinary Arts AOS
  • Civil Engineering Technology AAS
  • Electrical Engineering Technology AAS
  • Event Management AOS
  • Health Studies AS
  • Hospitality Management AAS
  • Mechanical Engineering Technology AAS
  • Music AS
  • Music Recording and Production AS
  • Office Technologies Certificate
  • Social Media Certificate
  • Sports Management AAS
  • Web Development Management
  • Website Development and Management Certificate

Work Groups

As part of our continued Pathways work, the Retention Work Group will work to implement a plan to support student retention at the college, which includes 3-4 strategies focused on courses with DFW rates and high equity gaps. Strategies will potentially include supplemental instruction, embedded tutoring and 1-2 other innovative ideas.
By the middle of the Spring 204 semester, the Retention Work Group will provide a written summary of the plan, with the intent for the college to begin implementing these strategies in Fall 2024.

 

Co-chairs

  • Michael Stamets, Associate Dean of Hospitality and Culinary Event Center
  • Dr. Giovanni Scaringi, Professor, Economics

Work Group

  • Dr. Stephanie Malmberg, Associate Dean for Distance Learning, Professional Development and Student Success
  • Erin Marulli, Staff Associate/Student Retention
  • Beth Richards, Assistant Dean for Academic Services
  • Alison Chantry, Student Success Coach
  • Melissa Martin, Counselor, Chairperson of Counseling Services
  • Loreta Paniccia, Senior Learning Specialist/Coordinator of Tutoring Program
  • Tom Reid, Professor, Math Department
  • Courtney O’Hagen, Associate Professor, Psychology & Human Services Department
  • Dr. Diane O’Heron, Professor, English
  • Joanna Burd, Assistant Professor, Business Department
  • Melissa Glen, Associate Professor, Biology
  • Heather Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Physical Education & Sport Studies
  • Dr. Jeff Anderson, Associate Vice President & Dean of Liberal Arts and Business & Professional Studies
  • Venessa Rodriguez, Director of EOP
  • Colleen Cashman, Director of Athletics

As part of our continued Pathways work, the First-Year Experience Work Group will work to identify at least 3 common learning outcomes for the first-year experience/first-semester course, which ties to Orientation, and includes a potential set of activities/events (within or outside of the classroom) to support retention.
By the middle of the Spring 2024 semester, the First-Year Experience Work Group will provide the list of learning outcomes and activities they recommend, with the intent for the college to begin implementing in Fall 2024.

 

Co-chairs

  • Stephanie Malmberg, Associate Dean for Distance Learning, Professional Development and Student Success
  • Maria Montemagno, Professor/Chairperson of Hospitality Programs

Work Group

  • Erin Frye, Associate Professor, Business
  • Lucy Harkness, Associate Professor, English
  • Dr. Nick Kocieniewski, Director of Student Activities
  • Robert Lofthouse, Associate Professor, Chairperson of Engineering Science & Physics
  • Dr. Kennie Leet, Professor, Chairperson of Physical Sciences
  • Erin O’Hara-Leslie, Associate Professor/Chairperson of Health Studies
  • Brittney Richardson, Staff Associate, Admissions
  • Denise Wells, Professor, Business Information Technology

As part of our Pathways initiative, the Financial Wellness Work Group is conducting an assessment of the college’s current practices in supporting students’ financial wellness to develop short and long term strategies to further enhance these efforts. To inform this work and help understand how different types of poverty impact higher education persistence, retention, and degree completion, helping us move from a poverty aware to a poverty informed campus, the work group attended the two-day Donna Beegle Poverty Immersion Institute to help frame this work.

Co-Chairs

  • Dr. Stephanie Malmberg, Assistant Dean for Distance Learning & Professional Development
  • Venessa Rodriguez, Director of Educational Opportunity Program

Team

  • Sarah Armstrong, Staff Assistant, Continuing Education and Workforce Development
  • Maureen Breck, Academic Advisor
  • Cheryl Campbell, Sr. Staff Assistant, Student Financial Services
  • Laura Hodel, Director of Student Financial Services
  • Heidi Melzer, Senior Staff Assistant, Student Financial Services
  • Brittney Richardson, Staff Associate, Orientation
  • Vatsal Shah, Academic Coach
  • Cathy Williams, Executive Director of BCC Foundation

As another aspect of our Pathways initiative, the Onboarding Work Group is conducting an assessment of existing barriers within the college’s current onboarding processes to develop short and long-term strategies focused on providing a seamless and cohesive onboarding process for students, from their initial contact with the college, extending through graduation. The group is specifically focused on improving orientation, incorporating career exploration into the enrollment process, and streamlining and adapting communication for specific target audiences to help improve the student experience.

Co-Chairs

  • Beth Richards, Assistant Dean for Academic Services
  • Brittney Richardson, Staff Associate, Orientation
  • Jesse Wells, Executive Enrollment Management Officer

Team

  • Valerie Carnegie, Staff Associate, Chair, Career & Transfer Services
  • Joshua Frederick, Educational Opportunity Program Counselor
  • Sandy Gibble, Assistant Registrar
  • Erin Marulli, Staff Associate, Student Retention
  • Samantha Smith, Accessibility Specialist, Accessibility Resources Office
  • Kate Taylor, Academic Advisor, Chair, Academic Advising