The co-requisite model at Roxbury Community College (RCC) closes equity gaps by allowing students to take both their developmental math course and their college-level math course simultaneously. The developmental course is not credit bearing, and therefore is cost-free, allowing students to maximize their financial aid toward degree-completion courses. The pilot program for this model ran from spring 2016 to spring 2018. Out of 221 students who enrolled in the pilot program, the majority of the students passed college math (64 percent). Once the program officially launched in summer 2018, similar results were found with 63 percent of the 251 students enrolled in the program passing college math. In 2019, RCC presented its outcomes at the League for Innovation in the Community College’s Innovations Conference.
