RUME 26
2024
Omaha, Nebraska
Using Theory to Scale Innovation in Higher Education: Supporting the Implementation of Multiple Mathematics Pathways and Corequisite Support in Arkansas
Page: 1211
The Charles A. Dana Center worked across all public colleges and universities in Arkansas through a project called Strong Start to Finish (SStF) Arkansas to support the implementation of corequisite support for underprepared students in mathematics and multiple mathematics pathways for all. Consistent with Reinholz, White, and Andrews’ (2021) call to more effectively ground change efforts in change theories, the Dana Center designed its innovation using a change theory-based theory of change. This preliminary report describes this project’s outcomes and how the projects’ results further the field’s understanding of Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory, one of the change theories on which the project’s theory of change was based.