日期: 2020 - 2025

奖励金额: $3 million ($600,000/yr)

The Pathways to Completion II grant intentionally centers Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x students and their intersectional experiences in the design and delivery of student Success Centers and a Career-First curriculum.

补助金将:

  • center around a Network of Care including counselors, coaches, tutoring, faculty, support centers and more. 
  • create Career Communities that are hubs of exploration and empowerment for Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x students and their peers
  • encourage students to stay on path to completion through focused support

Pathways to Completion

项目目标

  1. Academic 项目: Develop a multi-faceted approach to career exploration that introduces early and reinforces often, offers robust internship opportunities contextualized for each career community, and career content that is embedded into curriculum.  
  2. Institutional Management: Build and foster a multi-modal Network of Care, a student support model rooted in the fundamental belief that student support and advising is a shared responsibility and that support needs to be provided at both the micro and macro levels in order to truly impact the student experience.
  3. Fiscal Stability: Increase student 结果 and close equity gaps to ensure alignment with state-mandated performance-based funding focused on student equity, student success, and workforce 结果. 

Project Objectives

在9月. 30, 2025, PCC will achieve the following project objectives:

  1. 持久性:  Increase the fall-to-spring persistence rate by 10% (based on 2017-18 baseline: 71% all; 70% Hispanic)  
  2. 多余的单位: Decrease the average number of excess units at degree completion by 8 units (based on the 2017-18 baseline: average 91 units among all degree earners, as well as among Hispanic degree earners)  
  3. 完成: Increase State-defined Scorecard completion rate by 5% and close equity gap (based on 2016-17 baseline: 56% all; 46% Hispanic)
  4. Field of Study: Increase the number of PCC students who are employed in their field of study by 5% (based on the 2018-19 baseline of 72.5%: 70% for Hispanic students)  
  5. 生活工资: Increase the percentage of PCC students who earn a livable wage within 1 year of completion by 6% (based on the 2017-18 baseline of 41%: 35% for Hispanic students)1 

人员

  1. Project Director -- Dr. Isela Ocegueda
  2. Activity Director -- Tito Altamirano
  3. Administrative Assistant -- to be filled  
  4. Career First Curriculum 教师 Lead -- Dr. 西尔维亚Toscano
  5. Network of Care 教师 Lead -- to be filled
  6. 通信 and PR Specialist -- Sera DiBlasio