Collective Impact and High-Impact Practices

by Ken O’Donnell An earlier post described the ways Collective Impact – the structured coordination of effort across settings and sectors – applies to organizations, and drew from a conversation I had with Jane Close Conoley, president of California...

Maryland’s Mathematics Reform Initiative: A Promising Experiment

by Nancy Shapiro For the past five years, the University System of Maryland has led a statewide collaboration among five public universities and seven community colleges to redesign college-level mathematics pathways.  Our collaborative five-year experiment with...

Equity in Transfer: How Higher Education Systems Matter

by Maria Ishaq Khan Transfer is a common phenomenon in higher education and the problems associated with it are well known – loss of credits, lack of clear transfer paths, inadequate advising, and extended time to degree. What is often less discussed is that these...