Introduction

The introduction of the book lays out the main premise The authors suggest that the "cafeteria" style model of most community colleges is not serving the population of community college students well. Rather, they suggest that a "guided path model" would more effectively serve community college students.  The concept of the guided pathways, suggest the authors, is that the model is more effective in aligning employment, career and academic goals. This is especially true for the majority of community college students who may lack intrinsic motivation and career clarity. In the introduction, the authors allude to studies which show that guided pathways programs that have been researched and have been shown to improve student success and student outcomes,

In upcoming posts, I will outline the ideas and concepts laid out in future chapters regarding challenges to reform in the community college system as well as a more detailed look at how deficiencies within the current cafeteria model.