Dual Enrollment Pathways
A primary goal of the High School Dual Enrollment Program is to align course selection
with major and career goals. The pathways are designed to provide students, especially
first-generation students and students from underserved populations, as well as their
high school counselors, strong introductory course options that are program-specific
and career-oriented.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER 1: Getting
a college degree is critical for success
in today's job market. But not enough students are
completing them, especially low-income students
and students of color. I recently visited Chaffey
College in California to see how they're
helping students stay on a path to a degree
and into the workforce so they can realize
their dreams. LAURA HOPE: Higher
education has been doing a lot of the same
things for 700 years. The very robes that we
wear to commencement are meant to support
us in drafty castles that we don't inhabit anymore. We have to be more future
minded, more responsive, more nimble to provide the
community with what it needs. Students struggle with not
knowing what it is they're going to do. We wanted to simplify
that experience. Rather than asking
an 18-year-old what is it you want to
do with yourself, we started to build a community
around their interest clusters. So if they're
interested in health, they're going to need
guided exploration rather than bouncing around in a series
of courses that may not help them formulate a future goal. Dual enrollment has been a
way for high school students to earn college credit
while they're also attending high school. We want to open up
community college access to students who
don't see themselves yet as college material. Even taking one
or two courses can help to illuminate their
strengths and their interest to pursue a bigger
goal than they might have pursued otherwise. MATTHEW CABRERA: Along
with being a freshman, I'm a college student at Chaffey
taking college courses along with my high school classwork. I've known about
college, but I've never really understood the pathway
to get into that college. Joining this program provides
a clear path, clear steps, clear guidance to college. LAURA HOPE: Chaffey
made the determination to become a leader in
cybersecurity as a major. And our students can
identify that as a pathway while they're still
in high school, start to take some
courses, develop some foundational skills. SPEAKER 2: So this is
our cybersecurity center. And so what the
students have to do is they get to set up everything
that an organization might need, switching, routing,
firewalls, services, virtual systems. LAURA HOPE: Most of
our students get jobs before they're even finished
because the demand is so high. In California alone, cyber has
over 400,000 job opportunities. SPEAKER 2: It's great that they
have such hands-on experience available. If you get kids thinking, OK,
here's what I'd have to do, is that a fit for
me, then you can create a lot of clarity,
which shortens the distance to get to the job.
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Learn more about Bill Gates' visit to Chaffey's Cyber Security Dual Enrollment Pathway!
See GatesNotes: A Map from Classroom to Career
Start Your Pathway Here
Onboarding Pathways Program Maps Pathway Guides
Make an appointment with a Dual Enrollment counselor
High School Partners (HSP) would you like to cohort interested Dual Enrollment students
onto a pathway? Ask us how! Email Dual.Enrollment@chaffey.edu.