Setting Goals for Scale: A Thought Experiment Description This tool provides a process for gathering different perspectives on the goals that your college should set for implementing math pathways. Topics: Implementation
A Guide for Setting Goals Description Setting long-term goals for scaling an innovation communicates an institution's collective vision. This tool provides a structure and process to set goals for mathematics pathways at your college. Topics: Implementation
Creating a Statewide Mathematics Inventory Description The purpose of this tool is to help a state develop an inventory of mathematics course requirements by program and by institution. The inventory can be used by the state mathematics task force to assess alignment of program requirements across the state. It can also be used by program chairs, mathematics faculty, advisors, and others to inform decisions about aligning mathematics requirements with Topics: State Task Force, K-12 and Higher Education Alignment, Transfer
Momentum for Improving Undergraduate Mathematics: Progress from State Mathematics Task Forces Description This brief provides a summary of state math task force recommendations. The brief is intended to inform policymakers, senior and mid-level administrators, faculty, and state agencies about the growing consensus for change in the field and to identify the domains for coordinated action associated with implementation of multiple math pathways. Topics: State Task Force, Impact Stories, Implementation
Core Principles for Transforming Remediation within a Comphrensive Student Success Strategy Description A policy and practice blueprint for serving students who seek better lives through higher education but who may also benefit from support to succeed. Topics: Policy, Transfer, Corequisites
Mathematics Foundations for Success in Introductory Statistics Description Formerly titled "Mathematics Prerequisites for Success in Introductory Statistics," this brief was updated in August 2019 to better reflect the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways shift in focus away from prerequisites and toward co-requisite models of instruction. In order to place students appropriately and in order to design an efficient and effective pathway to statistics for students who may Topics: Corequisites, Curriculum
A Call to Action to Expand Access to Statistics Description Call to action statement that encourages mathematics departments to expand access such that more students are allowed to enter directly into Introductory Statistics, and to eliminate or replace stand-alone prerequisite courses that do not adequately prepare students for statistics content.
Program of Study Issue Brief: Mathematics for Social Work Description Updated in 2019 with national data, new research, and refreshed analyses, this program-of-study brief discusses what constitutes relevant mathematics for social work majors by examining institutional requirements and recommendations from professional organizations. Topics: Partner Disciplines, Placement
Program of Study Issue Brief: Mathematics for Criminal Justice Description This brief informs institutional discussions of recommendations from professional organizations in criminal justice about modernization of mathematics course requirements among institutions of higher education. This brief was updated in 2019 to include national-level recommendations. Topics: Placement, Partner Disciplines, Transfer
Program of Study Issue Brief: Mathematics for Communications Description This brief informs institutional discussions of recommendations from professional organizations about modernization of mathematics course requirements among institutions of higher education. This brief was updated in 2019 to include national-level recommendations.
Publishing and Disseminating Recommendations Description This resource provides guidance on writing and publishing the recommendations in the form of a report. It also provides suggestions on disseminating and advocating for those recommendations. Topics: State Task Force, Communications
Planning the Vetting Process Description This resource supports task force leaders to plan an effective process to vet recommendations before final publication. Topics: State Task Force, Policy