West Valley College: A Spotlight on Colleges Building Seamless Paths to Student Success (Pathway Champions)

The Campaign for College Opportunity is proud to spotlight West Valley College as an honoree of the 2025 Pathway Champions Award for campuswide success in math. This recognition reflects the Campaign’s mission to ensure equitable placement and completion policies deliver on their promise of expanding access to transfer-level coursework and closing racial equity gaps. AB 705 and 1705 are landmark policies requiring colleges to use multiple measures for placement and granting students direct access to transfer-level math and English courses that give them the best chance of completing a bachelor’s degree. By ending outdated remedial policies and strengthening student-centered supports, West Valley College has advanced this mission by ensuring that students enroll and succeed in transfer-level math within their first year.

Their success demonstrates how equity-driven implementation of equitable placement and completion can change lives and exemplifies the practices highlighted in the Campaign’s Equity, Inclusion and Action (EIA) publication series.