Virginia’s community colleges, employers, and trade associations are partnering to address the shortage of skilled workers in manufacturing, by making it easier for Virginians to be trained and job ready. As the leading provider of workforce development training, the Commonwealth’s community college system assists manufacturing employers in connecting with the appropriate education and training programs. The system also helps colleges stay connected to employer needs by creating relevant curriculum that lead to in- demand industry certifications and degrees.

This resource from the Charles A. Dana Center outlines the considerations and process for launching task forces that establish ongoing partnerships between workforce stakeholders (e.g., industry, higher education, advocacy organizations, professional organizations, students). The goal of these task forces is to ensure that students attain the mathematics skills specific to their chosen industries in order to have equitable opportunities for successful employment and promotion.

This resource focuses on Quantitative Literacy (also known as Mathematical Reasoning) as a rigorous, relevant mathematics pathway in Arkansas. It demystifies commonly held myths about enrolling students in this mathematics pathway.

This resource focuses on Quantitative Literacy (also known as Mathematical Reasoning) as a rigorous, relevant mathematics pathway in Arkansas. It demystifies commonly held myths about enrolling students in this mathematics pathway.

Evidence continues to mount that providing just-in-time assistance in the form of corequisite support courses is helping students succeed in completing their gateway mathematics courses in their first year,3 which has long been a major stumbling block for students who have been designated as underprepared for college-level work. Houston Community College has taken this reform a step further, crafting and refining a holistic student support structure that increased the number of students making it to and through college- level mathematics.

Mathematical competency and effective quantitative reasoning skills are essential for safe nursing practice; however, research reveals a lack of consensus on the necessary quantitative learning outcomes for undergraduate nursing programs. The High-Quality Mathematics Education for Nurses Task Force—supported by the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the Mathematical Association of America, and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses—was created in 2017 to build partnerships to work towards the goal that “all students in nursing programs will gain the mathematical and statistical knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promote and provide safe, high-quality health care.”

This study focused on the challenges of at-scale corequisite mathematics course development and implementation based on the experiences of 21 system leaders, college administrators, and faculty across four states. Corequisite courses allow students who need or want additional support in college-level math to enroll in credit-bearing courses to receive extra, just-in-time help. Based on the identified challenges, this study also illuminated enabling conditions and provides recommendations for policymakers, state and college leaders, and campus faculty as they engage in corequisite development and implementation.

This toolkit presents design principles for implementing corequisite mathematics and provides tools and resources to make them actionable. It supports faculty members, advisors and administrators in adopting corequisites that ensure college students – in particular those who are Black, Latinx, Indigenous, first-generation and from low-income communities – are provided the supports they need to be successful. Authored by the Dana Center with support from Strong Start to Finish and Education Commission of the States.

This memo from Rick Luttman in April 1987 outlines the items that distinguished the mathematics program at SUNY-Potsdam.

This toolkit describes a three-phase process for communicating support resources to students in corequisite and gateway mathematics and English courses.