Pathways for Faculty and Staff

Pathways helps faculty, advisors, and mentors stay connected with students’ goals, progress, and well-being throughout their academic careers. By centralizing this information about students in Pathways, their advising team members and staff have fuller pictures of students’ aspirations, experiences and interests. To help students forge connections, Pathways also supports appointment scheduling for office hours and advising appointments, and referrals making. 

The program helps you help them, and keeps you in the loop about recommendations you’ve made, referrals you’ve given or additional support that may be needed.

Connections can share information through this secure system to make sure that students are getting the support they need:

Information Exchange

• Instructors can raise concerns about student’s course performance via individual flags or progress surveys 
• Students can self-identify concerns or ask questions via the Raise Your Hand feature 
• As an early alert system, Pathways information helps with identifying students at risk (persistence, graduation, distress or well-being) that may be in need of additional support
• Faculty and staff now have access to a secure system to document interactions and conversations with students 

Connecting Students to Resources and Supports

• Faculty and staff can refer students to various campus centers and office for more targeted support (such as AccessAbility Services and ESOL program)
• Faculty and staff can post office and advising hours so students know when they can come to you with questions. Another option is to allow students to schedule appointments directly with you in Pathways.

Information related to student-success outcomes

• At the individual and aggregate levels, Mount Holyoke wants to understand what works for students and what doesn’t. Pathways allows for data collection of student success indicators. This data will be used to help Mount Holyoke improve how we, as faculty and staff, work with students. 

Pathways helps bring this information together.