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A fully scaled corequisite support model that uses common course textbooks and exams helps underprepared students complete their gateway mathematics courses in their first year, removing a persistent barrier to degree completion.

Level:
Institution, Classroom
Process Stage:
Planning, Implementing
Role:
Institutional Leadership, Math Department, Partner Disciplines

Combining several initiatives led to a rapid scaling up of co-requisite supports for underprepared students. The multipronged approach required faculty collaboration to align gateway mathematics courses and intense training of support staff and advisors.

Level:
Institution, Classroom
Process Stage:
Planning, Implementing
Role:
Math Department
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A common concern among those considering mathematics pathways is the degree to which students who begin their college-level work in non-STEM pathways might be hindered if they switch to a STEM major.

Level:
Institution, Classroom
Process Stage:
Planning, Continuously Improving
Role:
Institutional Leadership, Math Department, Partner Disciplines, Advisors and Coordinators
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Developing multiple ways to explain mathematics pathways to students and advisors, including nontraditional approaches such as a “Math Paths” game, led to a deeper understanding of how pathways fit with the overall college experience.

Level:
Institution
Process Stage:
Implementing, Continuously Improving
Role:
Math Department, Advisors and Coordinators
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In the early stages of implementing mathematics pathways reforms across multiple campuses, leaders strategically and authentically engaged faculty, directly addressing their concerns and empowering the people on the front lines to work towards the institution’s vision.

Level:
Institution
Process Stage:
Implementing, Continuously Improving
Role:
Institutional Leadership, Math Department, Partner Disciplines

The resource is a 2016-2017 fiscal year progress report of the Ohio Mathematics Initiative (OMI).

Level:
State
Process Stage:
Implementing
Role:
Institutional Leadership, Math Department, Partner Disciplines

This tool is a collection of templates that faculty and administrators can use to prepare for and implement multidisciplinary discussions focused on identifying a default mathematics course requirement that is most relevant for each program of study.

Level:
Institution
Process Stage:
Planning
Role:
Math Department, Partner Disciplines

This resource outlines the content of the Texas (HB 5) college preparatory course.

Role:
Policy, Math Department

This resource is a sample of the Foundations of Mathematical Reasoning course.

Level:
Classroom
Process Stage:
Planning, Implementing
Role:
Math Department

The Texas Success Center (TSC) collects statewide data to document progress Texas colleges are making in implementing the four principles of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways Model (DCMP).

Level:
State, Institution
Process Stage:
Implementing, Continuously Improving
Role:
Policy, Institutional Leadership, Math Department, Researchers

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This tool allows users to view, sort, and compare math course requirements for degrees and majors across public four-year institutions in Texas.

This report discusses the emerging national trend of offering corequisite support for first-semester calculus courses.

This report summarizes the research indicating the need for additional supports for students enrolled in corequisite math courses.

This toolkit is a guide for establishing a formal, streamlined, and systematic way to help students connect with student services and other support resources, and to encourage self- advocacy and increased use of campus resources.

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

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