Bay Path University was awarded a second Title III Strengthening Institutions Program grant in October 2019. 

This grant project was entitled “Learning for the 21st Century: Reimaging the Student Experience”, and the award totaled $2,248,908.  The grant’s goals were to:

1. develop and implement a guided pathways model
2. to reimagine and reframe student services in alignment with guided pathways
3. and to enhance and leverage technology to create a data-rich environment to support students’ pathways and success. 

The grant concluded in September 2025, and with all activities successfully completed, we highlight specific major accomplishments:

Guided Pathways:

• Pathway design teams, after engaging in professional development, designed four-year curricular pathways by planful assessment and revision of pre-requisites, milestone courses, and academic offerings and scheduling.  These activities allowed Bay Path University to launch its guided pathways model.
• Faculty participated in training on enhanced instructional methods, including adaptive learning and the Transparency in Learning and Teaching framework, to redesign 34 courses to include pathways contextualization and launch a financial literacy
• Outcomes:  The National Survey of Student Engagement’s subscale for Academic Challenge was administered in year 3 and the subscale for Campus Environment was administered in year 4, with results from both surveys achieving the desired metrics.

Integrated Technology:

• A customer relationship manager platform was launched and fully deployed to enhance the connectivity among student services staff and to facilitate the development of data dashboards
• A virtual one-stop platform was rolled out to all students, faculty, and student support offices.

Reframed Support:

• Admissions processes, onboarding orientations, and co-curricular programming were tailored to Guided Pathways, advisors were assigned to specific pathways, and Financial Academic Career plans were launched.
• A continuum of interventions, such as early warning systems and check-ins with students, were developed and deployed to help students persist through their academic degree pathways.
• Outcomes: Through this project, Bay Path University decreased the DFW rate by 6% and increased 1st- to 2nd-year retention by 2%!