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New National NExT Fellows
This past summer, two 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 27. This year’s new fellows were
Barry Balof of Whitman College and
Elizabeth Stanhope of Willamette
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
Walla Walla included “Tenure Concerns”, “Classroom Conundrums”, “What
Should Students Learn in Calculus?”, “Math Modeling”, and
“Family Issues”. 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 Walla Walla, three new fellows joined the PNW NExT
program, bringing the total number of fellows in the program to 15. This
year’s new fellows are Kelly Cline (Carroll
College), Julie Fredericks (Linfield
College), and Cora Neal (University of
Alaska Anchorage).
For more information on PNW
NExT, contact Jenny McNulty at
mcnulty@selway.umt.edu
or visit
http://www.math.umt.edu/pnwnext. |
