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The Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award

Nominations for the 2021 Burton W. Jones Award are now being accepted! See the 2021 Call for Nominations.

In 1991, the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America established Section Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics to recognize extraordinarily successful teachers of mathematics at the post-secondary level.

Burton W. Jones (1902–1983) was a lifelong advocate of excellence in teaching at all levels and a strong supporter of the MAA, its members and programs. In honor of his memory a motion passed at the 1998 Spring meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section to name the Distinguished Teaching Award for him.

Nominees and their nominators receive complimentary meeting registration at that year's section meeting (including banquet fees for the awardee and awardee's nominator). All nominators also receive a certificate of appreciation in recognition of their efforts to promote excellence in teaching.

The awardee is honored with a certificate and an honorarium at that year's Section Meeting, and is invited to deliver the opening lecture at the next year's Section Meeting. This individual also serves a one-year term on the Award Selection Committee and becomes the Section Nominee for the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. These national awardees (at most three) are honored at the MAA winter meeting with a certificate and $1000 check.

Like to nominate a colleague? See the 2021 Call for Nominations.

Past Recipients

1992John H. "Jack" HodgesUniversity of Colorado–Boulder
1993Gerald DiazUS Air Force Academy
1994A. Duane PorterUniversity of Wyoming
1995William D. EmersonMetropolitan State College of Denver
1996Zenas HartvigsonUniversity of Colorado at Denver
1997Tom KelleyMetropolitan State College of Denver
1998Monte ZergerAdams State College
1999Bill BrigssUniversity of Colorado at Denver
2000Barbara BathColorado School of Mines
2001Jim LoatsMetropolitan State College of Denver
2002Gene AbramsUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs
2003Hugh KingColorado School of Mines
2004Don TeetsSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology
2005Bryan ShaderUniversity of Wyoming
2006Barb MoskalColorado School of Mines
2007Lynne IpiñaUniversity of Wyoming
2008Steven JankeColorado College
2009Richard GrasslUniversity of Northern Colorado
2010Eric StadeUniversity of Colorado–Boulder
2011Rich BogdanovichCommunity College of Aurora
2012Janet NicholsColorado State University–Pueblo
2013Marlow AndersonColorado College
2014Anne DoughertyUniversity of Colorado–Boulder
2015Janet Heine BarnettColorado State University–Pueblo
2016Hortensia Soto-JohnsonUniversity of Northern Colorado
2017Diane DavisMetropolitan State University of Denver
2018Jeanne ClellandUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
2019Travis KowalskiSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology