A $50,000 award will support Fresno State's efforts to build student success in mathematics through community partnerships.

Fresno State’s work — in its second year — will bring together high school, community college and university math faculty to align and improve math teaching, expanding a partnership between the University, Fresno Unified School District and the State Center Community College District.

Fresno State was one of eight universities nationwide awarded a grant by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities to bolster student success.

The grants, known as collaborative opportunity grants, are supported with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will support community partnerships to improve students’ access to, success in and completion of college.

“The end goal of this work is to help students to succeed in university math classrooms and become good consumers of the mathematics they learn,” said Dr. Rajee Amarasinghe, chair of the Department of Mathematics.

Following an executive order issued by the California State University System’s Chancellor in 2017 that ended remedial math offerings effective this fall, faculty are co-writing course materials for the entry-level math course that includes a new lab for students needing targeted support to succeed in mathematics.

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