The Executive Board of the IMSEP has announced a Call for Proposals. Download the RFP.

University faculty have prepared an Iowa High Schools-To-Regent Universities Mathematics Transition Guide to help promote better understanding of the transition from high school to college mathematics.

The Iowa Legislature has approved $4 million for the Regents Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative Initiative.

Time to fix math, science education

Jeff Weld, UNI associate professor of biology and Board of Regents Math and Science Initiative Leader

March 24, 2008, UNI Des Moines Business Record Editorial

Iowa Mathematics Transitions Congress

November 14, 2007

The steering committee of the Board of Regents Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative Initiative will host a Mathematics Transitions Congress from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at UNI in the Old Central Ballroom in Maucker Union.  The goal of the Congress is to assemble instructional leaders of both high school and university mathematics courses to explore and improve the math transition from secondary to post-secondary math study at Iowa’s Regent universities. More...

The Board of Regents approves $5.5 million request

The Regents have approved a $5.5 million appropriations request for the Math and Science Education Initiative. This funding request will be included in the Board's fiscal year 2009 Legislative appropriations requests. The proposal addresses student performance in math and science courses, teacher shortages and the need for state collaboration.

View the news release.

View the funding proposal.

According to Department of Education reports, Iowa is experiencing a shortage of math and science teachers.  The result of this shortage is compromised math and science education for many of Iowa's students. This stands as an ominous backdrop to the reality that fifteen of the twenty fastest growing occupations of the 21st century will require substantial math and science preparation. In response to these challenges, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, requested that UNI lead a mathematics and science education collaborative initiative with the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.

The Regents collaborative initiative has three basic goals: