Strong Start to Finish Sites

 

Strong Start to Finish supports the scaling of evidence-based developmental education reforms in 13 higher education systems across the U.S. In 2022, we will be sharing updates on their evidence of success for use in expanded adoption of these reforms.

Arkansas Division of Higher Education

Partner since: 2018 

Success to date: Partnered with technical assistance providers, as well as faculty from the state’s 22 two-year and 10 four-year institutions, to scale corequisite course design for math and English to dramatically improve completion rates for students.

Current focus: Training faculty and leadership in evidence-based teaching and learning practices for English corequisite courses.

Dana Center Math Pathways Arkansas

SStF Arkansas Math Pathways

 

 

City University of New York

Partner since: 2018

Success to date: Supported and trained faculty members to increase completion rates of students in math and English corequisites by improving their online and in-person teaching practices.

Current focus: Mobilizing their team of central office administrators, campus leaders and faculty to engage all 10 of its open admission associate-granting institutions and ensure all students have a strong start to finish their degree.

CUNY Start

The Colorado Department of Higher Education

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Certifying 80% of advisors with a newly designed professional credential by fall 2021.

Colorado Advisors Lead

Foundation for California Community Colleges

Partner since: 2019

Success to date: With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and SStF professional networks, FCCC increased the number of students completing math and English gateway courses in the first year of study at all 115 public two-year institutions.

Current focus: Refining and improving data collection on gateway math and English courses, and the student supports being offered in conjunction with those courses, to further identify best practices.

The Louisiana Board of Regents

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Implementing scaled, evidence-based corequisite math plans at all 28 Louisiana public undergraduate institutions by fall 2021.

Louisiana Math Forward

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Ensuring that all students pursuing non-STEM pathways have access to college-level courses — with supports — by fall 2021.

Nevada System of Higher Education

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Working to require that all students at their seven institutions be advised about and enrolled in gateway math and English courses, with or without corequisite support, by fall 2021.

Transforming Developmental Education in Nevada

Ohio Department of Higher Education

Partner since: 2017

Success to date: ODHE formed a coalition with the Association of Community Colleges and Inter-University Council to ensure that students in Ohio’s 30 public two-year and four-year institutions enter into successful pathways for college completion. They redesigned gateway math and English programs and implemented corequisites while also addressing attainment gaps for historically underserved populations. 

Ohio Strong Start to Finish

Current focus: Supporting a productive faculty mindset and implementing culturally responsive pedagogy.

Oregon Community College Association

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Implementing transferable corequisite courses for STEM and non-STEM math pathways for the 2021-22 academic year.

Strong Start Oregon

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Creating guidelines for corequisite math instruction that will be adopted for implementation at most universities in the PASSHE system beginning fall 2021 with support from SStF and ECS.

The State University of New York

Partner since: 2017

Success to date: Expanded the corequisite English Accelerated Learning Program to provide system-wide support for campus-level leaders and faculty in accelerating guided math pathways.

Current focus: Developing and implementing a new multiple measures placement policy at both the system and institutional level.

Tennessee Board of Regents

Partner since: 2020

Current focus: Developing insights into remediation reforms at their colleges, sharing these insights, designing action steps, disseminating implementation tools and creating tailored supports for institutions.

University System of Georgia

Partner since: 2017

Success to date: Spearheaded by the system office and engaging all 26 institutions, USG-SStF has supported students in making a purposeful program choice and enrolling in clearly designed degree pathways that begin with completion of a gateway math and English course in the first year of study.

Current focus: Developing and scaling a statistics pathway available for students in non-STEM degree programs.