Resources
- Community College Research Center – Student Pathways and Programs of Study
- Completion by Design – http://www.completionbydesign.org
Paradox of Choice – pro/con
- To Get More Students Through College, Give Them Fewer Choices – NPR, April 2015
- Is the famous ‘paradox of choice’ a myth? – Barry Schwartz, PBS Newshour, January 2014
- More Is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth – The Atlantic, August 2013
- The Shapeless River: Does a Lack of Structure Inhibit Students’ Progress at Community Colleges? – CCRC Assessment of Evidence Series, January 2011
- Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload – Journal of Consumer Research, February 2010 [PDF]
- Given the choice, how much choice would you like? – Financial Times, November 2009
- More Isn’t Always Better – Barry Schwartz, Harvard Business Review, June 2006
- The Tyranny of Choice – The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2004 [requires login]
Other Publications
- Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at the City University of New York – Alexandra W. Logue, September 2017 [PDF of introduction]
- Mini Literature Review: Implementing Guided Pathways – MJC Institutional Effectiveness, July 2017 [PDF]
- What we can learn from Guided Pathways skeptics – EAB, June 2017
- Transforming Higher Education: The Guided Pathways Approach – Educause Review, June 2017
- Can “Guided Pathways” Keep Students from Being Overwhelmed By Choice? – Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2017 [premium]
- Guided Pathways to College Completion – Education Commission of the States, April 2017
- Role of Community and Technical Colleges in Producing Nursing Graduates: Rethinking the Pipeline for Guided Pathways – Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, January 2017
- Provide guided pathways to maximize adult completion – The Successful Registrar, December 2016 [PDF]
- Guided Pathways to Careers – Community College Review, October 2016
- Reassessing a Redesign of Community Colleges – Inside Higher Ed, June 2016
- Examining the Core Principles: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Data – Webinar for Texas Educators, May 2016
- Laying the Groundwork – Community College Journal, April 2016
- The Movement Toward Pathways – American Association of Community Colleges, 2015
- Redesigning Community Colleges – Inside Higher Ed, April 2015
- Grad rates double after reinvention of Chicago City Colleges – PBS, August 2014
- Building Guided Pathways to Success – Education Advisory Board, 2012 [PDF]
CUNY
- Pathways: City Tech – CUNY – AAC&U, 2016
- The Fight Against Pathways at CUNY – Academe, September-October 2014
- Town Hall Meeting: Speaking Out on Pathways, Organizing for an Alternative – PSC CUNY Clarion, April 2014
- CUNY’s Pathways Initiative and the Future of Higher Education Reform – Dissent, February 2013
- What CUNY Pathways Means for Undergraduates – The Nation, January 2013
- MLA Weighs in on CUNY – Inside Higher Ed, January 2013
- Austerity Education: The Real Agenda of Pathways – PSC CUNY Clarion, October 2012
Community College Guided Pathway Projects
- City Colleges of Chicago – Student Guided Pathways to Success – http://www.ccc.edu/Pages/studentgps/index.html
- The California Guided Pathways Project – https://www.caguidedpathways.org
- Building Guided Pathways for Success – Miami Dade College, March 2017
- Austin Community College – Guided Pathways Mapping – http://sites.austincc.edu/guidedpathways/
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