the state of oregon defines career pathways as a “series of articulated educational and training programs and services that enables students, often while they are working, to advance over time to successively higher levels of education and employment in a given industry or occupational sector. each step on a career pathway is designed explicitly to prepare students to progress to the next level of employment and education.[1]” more than 250 career pathway roadmaps are available through oregon's 17 community colleges.