Over the past decade, 113,000 adults with some college but no degree (SCND) have reconnected with higher education at Tennessee community colleges. Most of these students reconnected at community colleges after attending elsewhere, and many had made substantial progress toward a credential before stopping out. However, after reconnecting, fewer than half persisted to the next year. Students' first term of enrollment upon reconnecting proves to be a critical point in returning adults' postsecondary paths. The Pathways to Success for Students with Some College, No Degree project seeks to build a body of evidence about the challenges that returning adults at Tennessee community colleges face, the strategies that promote their success after they return, and the data that can be leveraged to support their success. This paper focuses on the coursetaking patterns of reconnecting students to learn more about which courses these students take in their first term after reconnection, how well they succeed in those courses, and how course success is correlated with longer-term outcomes like persistence and graduation.