1. California Guided Pathways
California Guided Pathways
Plus Governor’s Proposed Budget

2. What is California Guided Pathways?
Guided pathways provide students with clear, educationally coherent program maps that include specific course sequences, progress milestones, and program learning outcomes.
These maps are aligned to knowledge and skills required by four- year institutions and the labor market, thus ensuring that students can continue their studies and advance in their careers.

3. What is California Guided Pathways?
The Guided Pathways Project has four dimensions:
Clarify paths to student end goals
Help students choose and enter a pathway
Help students stay on path
Ensure that students are learning

4. California Guided Pathways
The California Guided Pathways
Project:
Under the fiscal agency of the Foundation for California Community Colleges
Colleges will attend six institutes (September – September 2019) to help them implement the California Guided Pathways Project
Colleges will pay a participation fee of $15,000 per year ($45,000 total) and will cover travel and staffing costs to get their teams to the institutes
15-20 California community colleges
Applications are due on February 28, 2017
California Guided Pathways State Funding:
$150 million for implementation
Trailer bill to be released in February
Allocation to districts to be determined

5. Governor’s Proposed Budget
Fiscal Year
Growth
1.34%
COLA
1.48% ($1.2 million)
Student Equity & SSSP
Same Level
One-Time Funding $0
Physical Plant & Equipment (Block Grant)
76% reduction
Proposition 39 – Energy Efficiency
25% increase
Tuition Fees
No increase
Base Augmentation
.38% ($300 thousand)
Expected cumulative increase to STRS/PERS for FY = $2 million (subject to change)