Nominations for the 2009 Texas Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are now being accepted. The Texas Section Selection Committee will choose one of the nominees for the Section Award. The recipient will be honored at the 2009 Annual meeting at the University of North Texas (April 16-18, 2009). The recipient will also be the official Section candidate for the pool of Section winners from which the national recipients of the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics will be selected. (One of the national winners may be selected from another source.) There will be at most three national recipients, each of whom will be honored at the national MAA meeting in January 2010 and receive a $1,000 check and a certificate.
Anyone is entitled to make a nomination, but nominations from
chairs in
departments of mathematical sciences are especially solicited.
Self-nomination
is not permitted. A previous nominee for this award who did not become
a
section awardee may be nominated again.
The nominees should
* "teaching" is to be interpreted in its broadest sense, not
necessarily limited to classroom teaching (it may include activities
such as
preparing students for mathematical competitions at the college level,
for
example, the Putnam Prize Competition or the Mathematical Contest in
Modeling,
or attracting students to become majors in a mathematical science or to
become
Ph.D. degree candidates).
** "influence beyond their own institution" can take many forms, including demonstrated lasting impact on alumni, influence on the profession through curricular revisions in college mathematics teaching with national impact, influential innovative books on the teaching of college mathematics, etc.
Nominations must be submitted on the official Nomination Form. Please follow the instructions on that form precisely to assure uniformity in the selection process both at the Section and the National levels.
If a file on a Section awardee significantly exceeds the prescribed limits (on page 2) it will not be considered for a national award and be returned to the Section.
Please send six copies of each nomination packet to
Reza Abbasian
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Texas Lutheran University
10000 W. Court Street
Seguin, TX 75188
so as to be received no later than November 1, 2008.
Nominations for someone from another Section should be sent to the Secretary of the nominee's Section.
The Section Selection Committee will choose the Section recipient and communicate its selection to the section secretary. The secretary will forward the section recipient's nomination file to the national secretary to be communicated to the national selection committee.
We look forward to your participation in this exciting MAA venture of taking a substantive action to honor extraordinarily successful teaching. The Association wants to see such teaching recognized at all post-secondary school levels. Please nominate a deserving individual from your institution.
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Document Last Modified – April 29, 2008.