Community College Math Major Research

This project investigates which factors impact student decisions to enroll and persist in mathematics majors in the two-year community college context. It aims to paint a robust and nuanced picture of the experiences of two-year community college mathematics majors, both to develop for the first time a model of mathematics major retention in the two-year context, as well as to provide critical counter-narratives to many of the deficit characterizations of these students in the research and practice discourse.