Workshop descriptions from 2006
Workshop descriptions from 2001-2005

SAUM: Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics strives to support faculty members and departments in efforts to assess student learning, and to use the results to improve their courses and programs.

PMET: Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers, a program designed to assist those mathematicians who currently train, or are interested in training, both pre- and in-service teachers. The philosophy of the program is guided by the recent CBMS report, The Mathematical Education of Teachers. Details are available on the PMET web site, http://www.maa.org/pmet.

The Mathematical Association of America's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) is charged with making recommendations to guide mathematics departments in designing curricula for their undergraduate students. CUPM began issuing reports in 1953, updating them at roughly 10-year intervals. The committee began work on CUPM Guide 2004 in 1999, culminating in recommendations approved unanimously by CUPM in January 2003. CUPM has held panel discussions, met with focus groups, and solicited position papers from prominent mathematicians. Through its Curriculum Foundations Project, CUPM's subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (CRAFTY) has conducted workshops with participants from a broad range of partner disciplines.

Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) is a program for new or recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences who are interested in improving the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics.

Project ACCCESS (Advancing Community College Careers: Education, Scholarship, and Service) is a program for new or recently hired faculty interested in advancing the teaching and learning of mathematics in two-year colleges.

The Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement (SUMMA) Program of the Mathematical Association of America was established in 1990 to increase the representation of minorities in the fields of mathematics, science and engineering and improve the mathematics education of minorities. There are also grants available through the Tensor-SUMMA Program.

The National Research for Undergraduates Program (NREUP) is an extension of the SUMMA Program, and is intended to encourage participation in mathematics from minority undergraduates by establishing focused and challenging research modules designed to generate interest in advanced degrees and careers in mathematics. NREUP student researchers deal with advanced topics such as combinatorial and cooperative game theory, DNA graphing, mathematical biology, and knot theory.

The Women and Mathematics Network has winning women into mathematics as its major goal. The network is an activity of the MAA Committee for the Participation of Women.

The Tensor Foundation, working through the MAA, plans to award grants for projects designed to encourage college and university women or high school and middle school girls to study mathematics. Brief descriptions of programs previously funded by Tensor are available. There are also grants available for the Tensor-SUMMA Program.

Special Interest Groups within the MAA (SIGMAA) offer a way for members with shared interests to connect with each other through special activities at regional and national meetings, and through targeted communications coordinated through the MAA.

The MAA supported Grant Writing Workshops at section meetings in 2000 and 2001. The information on which those workshops are based is still available, along with revised material from Spring 2003.

Tom Rishel, a member of the mathematics faculty at Cornell University and former Associate Executive Director for Programs and Services at the MAA, has written an extensive TA handbook for teaching assistants that contains valuable advice and information for anyone new to the mathematics teaching profession. 

The MAA's Guidelines for Programs and Departments in Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences were approved by the Board of Governors in August 2000. They were originally developed by a special committee during the period 1990-1993 and were approved by the MAA Board of Governors in 1993. The Guidelines are a living document, with review and updating assigned to the Council on Education. See also the response to the guidelines from the ASA-MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics.

The membership of the MAA is divided into twenty-nine sections. Each section holds a one- or two-day meeting each fall or spring, or both. These meetings consist of invited lectures, contributed papers, panel discussions, and other activities designed to promote and improve collegiate level mathematics.

Launched in 1995, the MAA Departmental Liaison Program is a network of over 1560 mathematics departments nationwide. MAA Liaisons receive timely and important sources of information about students activities, professional development opportunities and publications.

The MAA strives to advance the mathematical sciences, especially at the collegiate level. Of central importance in this mission is the role of students as they enter college, pursue their education and join the work force or field of advanced study. The MAA works to support the efforts and activities of students at all of these points of their mathematical journey.

The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) is dedicated to the goal of strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation's youth. AMC seeks to increase interest in mathematics and to develop problem solving ability through a series of friendly mathematics contests for junior and senior high school students.

Resources for Department Heads -- A brief list of websites offering information to help run a mathematical sciences department.

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