Following the short talks, there will be two major workshop sessions. David Stone, Georgia Southern University, will present the first workshop session. His topic will be "Lessons and Examples from Thirty Years of Teaching Mathematics," some reflections on the faculty member as teacher and scholar and how much fun it is. David is a member of the national Project NExT advisory Panel and he organized SE-NExT, the "local" NExT program for the Southeast Section of MAA.

The second workshop session will be presented by Todd Will, Davidson College. He will talk about mathematical resources on the internet. Todd is a coauthor of the textbook "Programming Paradigms via Mathematica (A First Course)" and is presently completing an introductory linear algebra text "Matrices, Geometry, and Mathematica" with three other authors.

The NExT workshop at last spring's meeting at John Carroll was very successful. Seventeen OhioNExT Fellows and four mentors took part. Three fellows gave short talks on their research activities -- presenters were Barbara Margolius (Cleveland State), Preston Nichols (Wittenberg), and Maria Walters (Ohio Northern). Milt Cox (Miami) presented a workshop session on nurturing good teaching and the evaluation of teaching. Fred Rickey (Bowling Green) followed with a session about how to enliven the standard calculus course with topics from the history of mathematics.

The upcoming workshop session at Columbus State will be the fourth since the founding of the Ohio Section's local version of the national Project NExT for new faculty members. There are now thirty-two OhioNExT fellows. Of these, seventeen are also national NExT fellows. To be eligible, the only requirements are that a faculty member be in her/his first four years of teaching and have a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates. Applications for new OhioNExT fellows are now being accepted.

TO APPLY TO BECOME AN OHIO NExT FELLOW: Send the application form (e-mail is acceptable) and department chair's letter of support to:

Barbara Ashton
Department of Mathematics and CS
Wittenberg University
P.O. Box 720
Springfield OH 45501
937-327-7860
ashton@wittenberg.edu

Each applicant must have the support of the department in which he/she is working. Please ask your chair or dean to write a statement of support, guaranteeing financial support for transportation, meals, and one night of lodging at the Ohio Section meetings at which Ohio-NExT activities are scheduled. (The Section will sponsor lodging for the extra night of lodging necessitated by attendance at the workshop and meals during the period of the workshop only.)

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Address comments and suggestions to hern@math.bgsu.edu.