Technical Assistance Services

The Vendor is required to provide to engage a technical assistance provider to facilitate and support agency campus gateway course redesign.
- In recent years, efforts have focused on ensuring that students are able to take and pass introductory college courses in English and math during the first year, as research has found that “students who complete college-level math within their first two years of enrollment are nearly three times as likely to complete a certificate, degree, or transfer as students who did not, and those who complete college level English are more than twice as likely to complete a certificate, degree, or transfer as those who do not.” improving success on courses that fulfill the general education communication (written and oral) and mathematics and quantitative reasoning requirements is therefore a key driver of strengthening completion.
- Provide to assist system administration and campuses in this area, and that include a focus on the success of area recipients.
- Lead a community of practice for approximately 10-15 agency campuses that will identify faculty to lead campus efforts for the re-design of gateway courses with high rates of failure and withdrawal.
•    Determining the root causes for failure and withdrawal rates, including analyzing areas of significant variability within and across campuses;
•    The use of multiple placement measures and math pathways linked to major/professional outcomes to ensure students are placed into appropriate college-level courses;
•    Scaling requisite supports using research-based best practices;
•    Providing faculty professional development on evidence-based pedagogical strategies; and
•    Embedding instructional supports, including technologically adapted supports, into gateway courses.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 21, 2025