Two-Year College Vice Chair’s Report

Scott Barnett Perhaps the most important two-year-college-related news this year is the announcement of Project ACCCESS (Advancing Community College Careers: Education, Scholarship, and Service), a joint AMATYC and MAA initiative to encourage the professional development of new two-year college mathematics faculty. Similar to the goals of Project NExT for new PhD’s in the mathematical sciences, the four stated objectives of Project ACCCESS are for its Fellows to

  1. gain knowledge of the culture and mission of the two-year college and its students;
  2. acquire familiarity with the scholarship of teaching;
  3. commit to continued growth in mathematics; and
  4. participate in professional communities.
The events for this Project will officially begin with the participation of Fellows in the AMATYC pre-conference workshop in Orlando in November 2004. Among their other Project-related activities, Fellows will also participate in regular and specially-designed activities at MAA Section meetings. The Michigan Section will need to work with Project coordinators and MichMATYC to provide such activities at future meetings.

Project ACCCESS is funded through a three-year grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation. More comprehensive information about the Project is available in the January 2004 issues of Focus and the AMATYC News. Application materials are to be available this spring at http://www.amatyc.org/ProjectACCCESS and http://www.maa.org/ProjectACCCESS. The deadline for applications is July 1.

Scott Barnett, Two-Year College Vice Chair



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