Guided Pathways
Making the Long Beach City College educational experience work better for students includes all of us – whether we work as counselors developing educational plans and exploring career options with students, or as faculty members teaching a class, or as staff members processing purchase orders and keeping the grounds beautiful.
National data indicates that students are taking too many units, spending too much money, which impacts their financial aid, and they are not graduating.
Through the national guided pathways framework, Long Beach City College’s Guided Pathways strives to provide informed options with intentional support for students actively pursuing their educational goals. Students will benefit from increased access to affordable education and timely completion of degrees and certificates, which will lead to expanded job opportunities and upward social and economic mobility.
We all have a role to play in Guided Pathways.
For more information, please email pathways@lbcc.edu.
EXPLORE
Creating clear curricular pathways with course sequencing that lead to employment and further education
- Welcome Centers
- Dual Enrollment
- Noncredit Courses
- Viking Preview Day
- Viking Summer Voyage
- Career and Academic Pathways
- Curriculum designed to connect academic work to employment
- Career Coach
LAUNCH
Helping students choose and enter their pathway by informing them of what they need to accomplish each semester
- Program Maps
- Supplemental Instruction
- Academic and Career Counseling
- Viking Advantage
- Contextualized Teaching and Learning
- Student Educational Plans
- Student Support Services
- Career and Transfer Services Centers
- Library Orientation
NAVIGATE
Helping students stay on their path by providing them with timely feedback and support
- Degree Planner
- Early Alert Interventions
- Study Groups
- Mentoring
- Student Clubs
- Success Centers
- Student Technology Help Desk
- Success Teams
LAND
Ensuring that learning is happening with intentional outcomes
- Service Learning
- Internship and Job Opportunities
- Alignment of Program Learning Outcomes
- Work Experience (WE) Courses
- Career and Transfer Services Centers
- Workforce Development
- Degree Completion Initiative