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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

1992	John H. "Jack" Hodges	University of Colorado–Boulder
1993	Gerald Diaz	US Air Force Academy
1994	A. Duane Porter	University of Wyoming
1995	William D. Emerson	Metropolitan State College of Denver
1996	Zenas Hartvigson	University of Colorado at Denver
1997	Tom Kelley	Metropolitan State College of Denver
1998	Monte Zerger	Adams State College
1999	Bill Brigss	University of Colorado at Denver
2000	Barbara Bath	Colorado School of Mines
2001	Jim Loats	Metropolitan State College of Denver
2002	Gene Abrams	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
2003	Hugh King	Colorado School of Mines
2004	Don Teets	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
2005	Bryan Shader	University of Wyoming
2006	Barb Moskal	Colorado School of Mines
2007	Lynne Ipiña	University of Wyoming
2008	Steven Janke	Colorado College
2009	Richard Grassl	University of Northern Colorado
2010	Eric Stade	University of Colorado–Boulder
2011	Rich Bogdanovich	Community College of Aurora
2012	Janet Nichols	Colorado State University–Pueblo
2013	Marlow Anderson	Colorado College
2014	Anne Dougherty	University of Colorado–Boulder
2015	Janet Heine Barnett	Colorado State University–Pueblo
2016	Hortensia Soto-Johnson	University of Northern Colorado
2017	Diane Davis	Metropolitan State University of Denver
2018	Jeanne Clelland	University of Colorado at Boulder
2019	Travis Kowalski	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology