The Developing a Community College Student Roadmap Project (Roadmap Project) was designed to help community colleges create robust and proactive programs of academic support— tied to expected learning outcomes—that engage students at entrance and teach them, from the outset, how to become active partners in their own quest for educational success.
The Roadmap Project, funded by MetLife Foundation, began in 2010 with twelve leadership institutions whose programs were poised to become national models of how to support student success and advance student learning. Launched in January 2013, phase two of the project expanded its network to include an additional ten community colleges.
Roadmap colleges are creating new capacity to significantly expand high-quality learning in two-year institutions. Using the framework for student success outlined in AAC&U’s signature initiative Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), Roadmap cross-divisional teams are posing...