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The Chain That Binds
By Lew Ludwig An Administrator’s Quip “If they want to ruin their education, that is up to them. We can’t stop them.” Someone recently shared this remark from an administrator who was responding to a question about whether they were concerned about what AI is doing to student learning. The exact circumstances and preceding exchange that...

The Putnam Exam: Why do we compete?
By Doug Ensley The MAA’s annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition has been running since 1938, and in the past 50 years, only 10 different institutions have won first place, with Harvard and MIT achieving the feat in two-thirds of those years. The competition is considered to be the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics competition in...
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    Best Practices Statements

    “Best Practices” statements written by the MAA’s Committee on Faculty and Departments (CFD) are the successor to the Guidelines for Programs and Departments in Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences report which was last published by the MAA in 2003. Along with updating the content based on new developments in the profession, technological change in the past decade provides us an opportunity to reimagine the format and distribution of the information in the Guidelines.