The supplement will allow the college to examine its STEM program specifically focusing on Mathematics 120 (MATH 120). This course is the lower level remedial math course. Available statistics show more than half of all incoming students need this course and of these, half will fail the first attempt. For the CCCC students, this course is truly the critical gateway. To graduate, transfer to a four year college, and enter a STEM career, the student must succeed in this course. Through this grant, the college will pilot innovations in its math instructional delivery and identify critical changes needed in the infrastructure of the college to foster student success. The college fully expects the lessons learned in this project will have widespread application to first other STEM courses, but ultimately to all courses offered by CCCC. This is in keeping with the college's belief the STEM courses are a critical core element of the college. The college will use the prior three years as baseline data for purposes of comparing the test areas of this grant.
