Mapping, career education, program mapping, pathway mapping
Career Education Pathway Mapping with Berkeley City College
Project Overview
“This visual [pathway map] is amazing. Big “phew” that we were not asked to map all this out … it was so helpful to have it set up already, so we could [just] dive into providing any light feedback.”
— Counselor at BCC
“[These meetings] helped the department reflect on sequencing – as [we went] back in again, I went – “oh, we have gaps that we need to fix,” ... so we’ll be meeting with epic games (unreal!) and hopefully partnering up on some curriculum development.”
— MMART Faculty Member
In 2021, FFG partnered with the Foundation for California Community Colleges to create asset inventories of Berkeley City College’s Career Education Pathways. To emphasize community-wide collaboration, we began by creating seven cross-functional mapping teams made up of BCC faculty, counselors, administrators, and FFG facilitators. Next we facilitated virtual working meetings, where mapping teams utilized our evidence-based processes to create asset inventories – a practice that helps us to identify a community’s existing strengths, and areas ready for improvement.
In a second round of working meetings, we introduced the mapping teams to a new process for evaluating and capturing current pathways, which helped BCC to identify gaps, problems, or inconsistencies within individual pathways – and make improvements. Then we captured the final pathways from all teams, and provided BCC with easy-to-update versions for future revisions.
By the end of Phase 1, we had:
co-created seven career education pathway inventories in their entirety;
provided BCC with a Career Education Pathway Map Template and Presentation Format for future mapping sessions – empowering them to continue to revise or develop pathways internally; and
developed individualized Action Plans for each represented department as they continue developing and disseminating these new resources – complete with unique Project Dashboards for tracking their progress.
We also provided BCC with shareable Asset Inventories and Key Findings – resources that captured all the best practices and opportunities we encountered in Phase 1.
Over a six month period draft maps were continually developed and worked on. This is one example of the evolution of a map from the initial draft. These maps are for internal purposes or meant to be interpreted with the guidance of a counselor or faculty advisor.
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3
This is an example of student facing outreach that was created from the mapping sessions.
Team
Graphic Designer(s) and Art:
Camille Contreras
Project Coordinator(s):
Lindsay Anglin
Dr. Laura Lara-Brady - Foundation for California Community Colleges
Maeve Katherine Bergman - Foundation for California Community Colleges
Writer(s):
Sara Sandhu
Copy Editor(s):
Elizabeth Harvey
Principal:
Roy Robles
