Summary of End-of-Meeting Comments
Meeting of PIs and
Other Senior Personnel
From NSF DUE Projects in Mathematics
March 16-18, 2002
Arlington, Virginia
Suggestions for Institutions
- Administrators should attend this type of meeting.
- Recognition of work
- Technology friendly classrooms
- Maintain a data base of math graduates
- Support interdisciplinary teaching
- Break down barriers between Mathematics and Mathematics Education Departments
- Seek faculty input on new classroom design
Suggestions for NSF
- Have more meetings like this one. Encourage PIs to budget for travel to these meetings
- PI training in grant management, grant administration mentoring
- Resume support for faculty enhancement workshops
- Improve the NSF web site to enable faculty to locate appropriate RFPs, to determine deadlines more easily, a glossary of acronyms
- More support for minority institutions, connect with funded projects
- Reminders for annual reports
- Expand the ASA program
- Need more efficient tools for conducting and reporting assessment activities – guidelines, CD materials, workshops
- Opportunities to suggest new programs
- An "Other" category for proposals
- Poster sessions at MAA/AMS meetings
- Panel discussions on teaching issues
- Support for MathML
Suggestions for MAA
- Run more meetings like this one and include faculty from minority institutions
- Host conferences at minority institutions
- Professional associations should support recognition in terms of teaching load, service load, promotion, and tenure for project work.
- Schedule sessions at summer meetings, especially "hands-on" workshops with publishers
- Create a community of developers at MAA Online
- Help projects find pilot sites
- Run sessions on what departments need and expect from new PhDs
- Report(s) on the effect of technology on student learning
- Support for MathML
- Speakers to undergraduate institutions to speak to students regarding careers in mathematics
- Provide help with assessment
Suggestions for Individual Participants
- Sell our materials/innovations both within and outside our institutions
- Reach out to minority faculty
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Revised 3/25/02