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Who Qualifies?

To be eligible, nominees must

  • be current MAA members,
  • teach mathematical science courses at least half-time during the academic year, and
  • have at least seven years experience teaching at the college or university level.

Nominate a colleague for the Section's Crawford Teaching Award!

The nomination requires two documents.

  1. First, the nomination form.
  2. Second, a 1 to 2 page letter from the nominator that follows the guidelines and provides evidence for satisfying the criteria of the Haimo Award  (again, the guidelines and criteria for the sections's Carol Crawford Award are the same as the Haimo award).
Both of these documents are to be sent to  Konrad Aguilar konrad.aguilar@pomona.edu by 11:59pm PST on April 15, 2026.

If your Nominee is selected...

We note that if your nominee wins the Carol Crawford award, then they become eligible for nomination for the Haimo award. Please be aware that the Haimo award nomination requires much more documentation than the Carol Crawford award as well as letters from colleagues and students (instructions for the nomination of the Haimo award). Therefore, please be prepared for the extra work involved in completing the Haimo nomination, should your nominee win the section's Carol Crawford Award. There will be a couple months between notification of the Crawford winner and when the Haimo nomination is due.

Mathematics Association of America
Southern California-Nevada Section

Carol Crawford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

The Southeran Califorinia-Nevada Section Carol Crawford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching honors college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions. Recipients of the section awards then become eligible to be nominees for the national MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. See our Call for Nominations or the nomination instructions on the left for more information.

Call for Nominations for the 2026 MAA Section Teaching Award

Konrad Aguilar, Section Chair

We are now soliciting nominations for the MAA Southern California-Nevada Section's Carol Crawford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! The SoCal-Nevada Crawford Award honors an outstanding recipient with a monetary prize of $500 (and $100 to the nominator of the winning recipient) contingent upon meeting the eligibility criteria of the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics found on the MAA website as well as listed in the left side column of the section's Teaching Award page.

Recipients of the SoCal-Nevada Crawford Award become eligible for nomination for the national-level MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Therefore, for the SoCal-Nevada Carol Crawford Award, we also follow the same Guidelines for Nomination and Criteria for Evaluation as the Haimo award.

Nomination instructions for the SoCal-Nevada Carol Crawford are found on the left side column of the section's Teaching Award webpage and must be sent to Konrad Aguilar. We also require at least 2 different people to be nominated (not two nominations per person) in order for the SoCal-Nevada Carol Crawford Award to be administered as well as at least one nomination must fulfill the above criteria, where this fulfillment is decided by our award subcommittee.

The deadline for SoCal-Nevada Crawford Award Nominations this year is April 15, 2026 by 11:59pm PST and should be sent to: Konrad Aguilar ( konrad.aguilar@pomona.edu )

Brian P Katz (BK) wins the Section's 2025 Teaching Award

Brian P. Katz (BK)

Dr. Brian P Katz (BK) of California State University Long Beach is the winner of the 2025 Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics and our Section's nominee for the national MAA's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

Quoting from his nomination, "BK is an exceptionally skilled educator whose writing, editorial work, and leadership work has had a tremendous positive impact on the mathematical community – both locally and nationally" and "BK is driven by a conviction that many common teaching practices cause epistemic harm to our students and he has written extensively to the mathematics community with the goal of shifting the norms and expectations for college mathematics classrooms." Moreover, from his work with Inquiry Based Learning and his work in his role as the MAA Project NExT Associate Director as well as his editorial work for PRIMUS among many other contributions, it is an honor to be able to bestow BK this award.

We congratulate BK for this award and look forward to his plenary talk at our 100th anniversary Fall 2025 MAA SoCal/Nev section at California State University Fullerton on October 18, 2025!

Alder Award

The Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member honors beginning college or university faculty whose teaching has been extraordinarily successful and whose effectiveness in teaching undergraduate mathematics is shown to have influence beyond their own classrooms. Read more...

Haimo Award

The Haimo Award Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics honors college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions. Read more...

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