Developmental Mathematics at Community Colleges

Thomas Carey is Senior Partner for Network Growth at the Carnegie Foundation and a Visiting Senior Scholar at San Diego State University, where he heads a program for faculty knowledge exchange and collaboration in California community colleges, funded by the Hewlett Foundation. In Canada—where he has been a faculty member, innovation leader and university executive—he leads a related initiative for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Tom visited Carnegie in February 2011 for a brown bag talk with staff. He presented on his work with faculty Knowledge Exchange Networks and the NSDL Developmental Mathematics Collection, where regional faculty teams are sharing exemplary practices, tools and resources intended to 'raise the bar' for local teaching practices and provide a network infrastructure to sustain national initiatives.

Byron McClenney, who directs UT-Austin's work in the national Achieving the Dream project, says that ensuring student success is the work of institutions as well as faculty and students.

Carol Lincoln, Director of Achieving the Dream, discusses the challenges of student success in community colleges.

Philip "Uri" Treisman is a Carnegie Senior Partner, advising the Foundation on work in developmental mathematics. He is professor of mathematics and of public affairs at the University of Texas, where he is also the executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center. He was named "2006 Scientist of the Year" by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University for his outstanding contributions to mathematics. In all his work he is an advocate for equity and excellence in education for all children. In this interview Treisman describes the "joyful conspiracy" of organizations like Carnegie working on a way to ensure student success in developmental mathematics.

Speaker: Anthony S. Bryk, Carnegie President

Speaker: David Wolf, Executive Director Emeritus, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of WASC

Speaker: Frank Chong, President, Laney College

Speaker: Myra Snell, Professor of Mathematics, Los Medanos College

Speaker: Rose Asera, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation

Speaker: Robert Barr, Executive Director, Foothill-DeAnza Community College District Office of Research and Planning.