Facilitating Student Access to Mathematics Programs - A Mathematics Learning Center.

密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校的数学与统计系正在寻求资金，为学生导师和基于技术的数学学习中心（MLC）提供设备。所要求的设备包括计算机硬件和有关软件以及视听工作站。提议建立这个新设施的目的是为了改善三个层次的学生获得数学课程的机会(I)大一补习水平（II）大一-大二微积分序列水平（III）大三-大四集中课程水平，重点是非集中课程。现有的数据显示，在这三个级别的课程中，有特定的先决条件课程的学生在umd完成先决条件课程的学生与没有完成先决条件课程的学生之间存在很大差异。MLC将促进大量学生进入数学课程，这些学生目前在加入结构化的数学课程序列方面遇到困难，而不是在开始阶段。本建议已获部门执行委员会批准。该系一半以上的专任教师积极参与了该计划的制定。MLC委员会主席，本提案的主要研究者，是系主任。它还得到了中央行政部门的热情支持，通过若干赠款，包括最近为目前正在进行的一个方案发展试点项目提供的12,000美元薪金赠款*证明了这一点

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn seeks funding for equipping a student-tutor and technology- based Mathematics Learning Center (MLC). The equipment requested includes computer hardware and related software and audio-visual workstations. Creation of this new facility is proposed for the purpose of improving access to the mathematics program for students at three levels (I) the freshman remedial level (II) the freshman-sophomore calculus sequence level (III) the junior-senior concentrators' program level, with emphasis on nonconcentrators. Existing data show wide discrepancies, in courses at these three levels having a specified prerequisite course, between students who completed the prerequisite course at UM-D and those who did not. The MLC will facilitate access to the mathematics program for large numbers of students who currently experience difficulty in joining a structured sequence of mathematics courses at a stage other than the beginning. This proposal has the endorsement of the Department Executive Committee. More than half the full-time faculty in the Department have contributed actively to its formulation. The MLC Committee chair, the principal investigator in this proposal, is the department chair. It also has the enthusiastic support of central administration, demonstrated through a number of grants, including a recent $12,000 salary grant for a program development pilot project, currently under way *