The UT System participates in a number of additional student success initiatives with both Texas and national partners.
Degree Completion
- The University of Texas Online Consortium offers individuals the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree through an online degree program Finish@UT .
- To assist institutions in tracking the progress of Ph.D. students, with the goal of shortening time-to-degree and improving student advising, each department is expected to use the Milestones Agreement Form when advising Ph.D. students.
National Association of System Heads: Taking Student Success to Scale
The University of Texas System is participating in the NASH initiative, Taking Student Success to Scale (TS3) . This initiative is aimed at achieving collective impact to leverage student success interventions that are proven to promote student success.
Transfer Partnerships
The New Mathways Project
The University of Texas System participates, in collaboration with the Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC) and the Charles A. Dana Center, in working to improve student success in the area of mathematics.
The New Mathways Project seeks to reform and improve developmental education in math. One means of reform is to differentiate between different students' needs for specific genres of math. Students in science, engineering or mathematics will likely utilize calculus in their professional lives. Nurses, teachers and liberal arts majors, however, stand a far lesser chance of making use of calculus. The discord this presents is that college math courses, generally, are designed to prepare students for calculus.
The true purpose of the New Mathways Project is to 1) establish and make available alternative math sequences that will provide higher utility to students and present less of a barrier to student success and 2) provide better support services for students in developmental math.
Ultimately, through this collaboration, each TACC member will receive the new math course materials and students will, in addition to gaining more utility from their math coursework, enter courses that better prepare them for college and beyond.
UTS is assisting with the partnership and articulation processes between community colleges and universities on the New Mathways Project.
For more information, please see the Charles A. Dana Center's New Mathways webpage.
