Pathways Collaborative Equity Partners Fund
Under its Equity Conscious Community College Pathways (EC3P) project, the Office of Community College Research and Leadership awarded a total of $150,000 in grants from the Pathways Collaborative Equity Partners Fund. Three grants of $50,000 each were awarded to Pathways Collaborative partners to examine best practices that support equitable access and outcomes for students through the incorporation of equity-centered practices that address educational inequities in the Guided Pathways Model. This funding allowed Pathways partners to individually, or collaboratively, explore and examine aspects of an intervention, practice, program, or strategy to improve or promote equity-centered and culturally responsive initiatives.
The three grant awardees are:
The Aspen Institute
Project Summary
The Aspen Institute used the Pathways Collaborative Equity Partners Fund, in conjunction with Achieving the Dream, to develop a set of case studies and instructional resources that support colleges in anchoring their pathways design and implementation in a clear, data-informed theory of change in the realm of equity. The project addressed equitable integration and delivery of academic and nonacademic supports for marginalized students, offering strategies for engaging faculty in examining and using disaggregated data. Ultimately, it provides professional development to support innovative course design and delivery, implements high-impact practices and culturally responsive instruction, and helps ensure that all students have equitable access to inclusive educational practices.
Webinar
Dismantling the Barriers to Equitable Outcomes - Three Case Studies of Community Colleges
Carnegie Mathematics Pathways
Project Summary
The Carnegie Mathematics Pathways network used the Pathways Collaborative Equity Partners Fund to create and pilot four video vignettes under the title “Making the Path by Walking It.” These equity-centered video-case activities were designed to support the professional growth of institutional decision-makers in the same way that cases rooted in classroom video have supported intercultural responsiveness among teachers. Each video includes professional learning activities for institutional leaders, administrative coaches, faculty mentors, and instructors. Ultimately, case facilitation materials provide the means for orchestrating equity-centered conversations that are challenging, purposeful, and consequential.
Webinar
Carnegie Mathematics Pathways Video Cases - Making the Path by Walking It
Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University
Project Summary
The Community College Research Center used the Pathways Collaborative Equity Partners Fund to develop two tools to help colleges examine student access, progression, and success at the program and degree levels; scrutinize how current college practices are shaping these inequities and develop plans for equity-centered processes to address them; and assess whether these practices led to improved outcomes for underserved student groups.
Webinar
Assessing and Advancing Equity Through Guided Pathways
Funding Source
This work is part of OCCRL's Equity Conscious Community College Pathways (EC3P) project, which is funded under the title "Embedding Equity within Pathways Catalog of Services" by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
