About PATH

A Year 3 project at UCG

PATH was built by a group of Year 3 students at University College Groningen as part of their final-year project. It is grounded in academic work on how knowledge spreads through peer networks — but it was designed to be useful first, and academic second.

UCG is a small liberal arts and sciences college in Groningen. It gives students unusual freedom — the kind where you choose your own combination of disciplines, design your own major, and largely figure out your own direction. That is also what makes it hard to navigate, especially early on. There is no fixed curriculum to follow, no obvious career path attached to the degree, and the examples you would normally look to — what did people before me do? where did they end up? — are not easy to find.

The knowledge to help with this already exists inside the UCG community. It sits with third years who know which courses are worth taking and which processes are harder than they look. It is with alumni who have turned a liberal arts degree into something real. But most of it never travels further than a conversation between people who happen to know each other.

PATH is an attempt to make that knowledge findable. It is a digital living library — a directory of students and alumni who are willing to make their experience accessible. Each profile is a "book" with a title that tells you what that person knows. Anyone can browse it and reach out directly.

It was built as a Year 3 project, but designed to last beyond that — to become something the UCG community owns and maintains, not something that disappears when the project group graduates.