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New National NExT Fellows
This past summer, four new faculty from the
Pacific Northwest Section were selected as fellows in the national
Project NExT program, bringing the total number of national NExT fellows
from our section to 24. This year’s new fellows were
Michael Casey of the University of Puget
Sound, Tim Chartier of the University of
Washington, Chuck Dunn of Linfield
College, and Karen Marrongelle of Portland
State University.
Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) is a
national professional development program for new college-level faculty
interested in improving the teaching and learning of undergraduate
mathematics. Details about Project NExT can be found in an article that
appeared in the February, 1999 AMS Notices and on the NExT web site at
http://archives.math.utk.edu/projnext/.
Pacific Northwest Section NExT
The Pacific Northwest
Project NExT is an extension of the national program to the section
level. PNW NExT Fellows meet once a year at our annual section meeting
to discuss topics related to teaching as well as other issues of
importance to beginning faculty. Sessions at this year’s meeting in
Portland included “Advising”, “Mathematics Students in the New Century:
Are they fundamentally different than we were?”, “Working with
Pre-Service and In-Service Mathematics Teachers”, “Tips on Talks”, and
“Introduction to Proofs Course”. Fellows also attended a minicourse and
several social events. After the meeting, PNW NExT Fellows and
Consultants are linked together throughout the year by an electronic
network on which discussions can continue.
At last summer’s PNW
section meeting in Portland, six new fellows joined the PNW NExT
program, bringing the total number of fellows in the program to 12. This
year’s new fellows are Chuck Dunn (Linfield
College), Jonathon Fassett
(Central Washington University), Mark Fitch
(University of Alaska Anchorage), Kanchan Mathur
(Portland Community College), Shannon Overbay
(Gonzaga University), and Bharath Sriraman
(University of Montana). Applications will be solicited in the spring
for new 2003 NExT fellows.
For more information on PNW
NExT, contact Jenny McNulty at
mcnulty@selway.umt.edu
or visit
http://www.math.umt.edu/pnwnext. |
