OhioNExT

Spring, 2000

The next OhioNExT workshop will be held Thursday evening and Friday morning, April 6-7, preceding the Ohio Section spring meeting at Marshall University. This workshop will be the seventh since the founding of the Ohio Section's local version of the national Project NExT for new faculty members. The Ohio Section will provide housing and meals during the workshop for NExT Fellows during their first two years in the program. Others will be funded by their own local mathematics departments. The "headquarters" hotel for NexTers in Huntington, W.Va. will be the Travelodge-Uptowner Inn at 1415 Fourth Street, right next to the Marshall Campus. Fellows should make their own reservations at (304) 525-7741. Activities begin with a banquet at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening in the Governor's Room at the Travelodge-Uptowner. Following the banquet, there will be a freewheeling discussion about issues in teaching and professional development.

Friday morning, after a continental breakfast beginning at 8:00 a.m. in Room 2E11 of the Memorial Student Center on campus, workshop activities will begin at 8:45 a.m. in the same room. Leading off will be short "teaching vignettes" presented by OhioNExT fellows about experiences in teaching. Following the short talks, there will be two major workshop sessions. Joe Diestel (Kent State) will present a session titled "Staying Alive." Mark Smith (Miami) will present a session entitled "Math Majors: Where have They All Gone, and How Do We Start Getting Them Back?"

Nineteen NExT fellows and four mentors took part in the NExT workshop at last fall's meeting at the College of Wooster. Short "teaching vignettes" were presented by three fellows: Dave Sobecki (Miami-Hamilton), Angela Spalsbury (Hiram), and Vickie VanDeslar (Ashland). There were two major workshop sessions. David Kullman (Miami) presented a workshop titled "Citizenship in Your Department and College. He discussed tenure matters in the context of broader issues. John Ramsay (Wooster) presented the second workshop. He discussed Wooster's Applied Mathematical Research Experience (AMRE) program, which sends student teams and faculty advisors from the college to a business, industry, or agency for mathematical "consulting" during the summer.

There are now more than thirty OhioNExT fellows, and about half 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 use this application form or contact:

Barbara Ashton
Department of Mathematics and CS
Wittenberg University
P.O. Box 720
Springfield OH 45501
937-327-7860
bashton@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. This support will continue during the first 2 years of the applicant's participation in the workshop.)

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March 16, 2000