For decades, higher education has largely been built around a traditional one-size-fits-all model: Enroll in college, complete courses, earn a degree and enter the workforce. But that route does not reflect the way many students actually navigate their college journeys today.

As students transfer between institutions, balance work and school, pursue workforce training, and earn credentials in different ways, colleges are trying to redesign the systems around them rather than force students to travel disconnected routes on their own.

Here are four things colleges are doing to rebuild pathways from learning to opportunity.

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