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Should we teach limits?

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. Last month I completed a series of thirteen columns on ``Calculus for Teachers'' in which I explored some of the deeper origins and understandings of common topics in university calculus. These included Continuity (December 2024), the Mean Value...

There and Back Again: Why I’m Finally Trying Alternative Grading

Three years ago, in the early months after ChatGPT arrived, I predicted that “Alternative Grading in the Age of AI” would be the next best selling book on the faculty development circuit. Here we are three years later, and while this text has yet to materialize, I’m finally ready to dip my Hobbit-like toes into...

Who Needs a Diversity Statement Anyway?

By: Omayra Ortega, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University The December 2019 Notices contained an op-ed article that you may have heard a thing or two about. In the blog, we read, “[w]hatever our views on communism, most of us today are in agreement that the University of California (UC) loyalty oaths of the 1950s were...

I was VITAL faculty

By: Carrie Diaz Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bates College, @mathprofcarrie See entire thread at https://twitter.com/bravesgyrl/status/1148356206290984960 Dr. Sutton (@bravesgyrl) wrote an amazing series of Twitter posts this summer. She talked about how it feels to be a non-tenure track faculty member, mingling in our broader professional world. She talked about Dr. Levy’s...

Equal vs. Fair

By: Dave Kung, Professor of Mathematics at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, @dtkung Ten years ago I walked into a first-day calculus class, ready with an ice breaker. To start, I instructed them to “find a partner.” As the room buzzed to life with students pairing up, most people quickly found someone. But I watched...

Black and Excellent in Math

By: Haydee Lindo, Assistant Professor, Williams College, @HaydeeLindo Mathematics is a beautiful discipline and, despite its challenges, it is worth pursuing. As an added bonus, jobs in STEM pay nearly twice the national average. However, only 4% of Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics (1007 of 24,293) were awarded to Black and African American students in 2016....

A California Community College’s Response to Assembly Bill 705 and Its Impact on Math Placement

Photo credit: https://www.dvc.edu/academics/departments/math/statway.html By: Jamylle Carter, Professor of Mathematics, Diablo Valley College “I’m kind of nervous about being in this class. Last year I wouldn’t have been able to take statistics because I hadn’t finished intermediate algebra. Do you really think I can do this?” This question came from a returning adult student (“Lori”) on...

The Need for HBCUs in the STEM Pipeline

The Failure to Quell Racism and Racialized Experiences Supports the Need to Maintain and Sustain HBCUs in the United States Note: This introductory article is the first one in a series of articles on HBCUs. By: Jacqueline Brannon-Giles, Resident Professor, Houston Community College Central Campus, Adjunct Professor Texas Southern University, @JackieBGiles Consultants: Willie Taylor, PhD;...

COURAGE in Undergraduate Mathematics

By Erin Moss, Co-editor of DUE Point Challenging, Operationalizing, and Understanding Racialized and Gendered Events (COURAGE) in Undergraduate Mathematics is a collaboration between researchers at Rutgers University and Vanderbilt University. It is supported by the NSF IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) program, which funds projects addressing educational advances in STEM fields for both majors and...

Living Proof: Exploring Privilege and Prejudice in Mathematics

By Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America I am reading a book, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility,” that carefully discusses the complex and nuanced relationships between white privilege, prejudice, and racism. DiAngelo also notes the role of ideology in preserving existing social ideals and structures, such as individualism and consumerism, and how...

What is a Meritocracy?

By Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America I am confident in asserting that all of you reading this post have taken a variety of standardized tests over the course of your lives. I would venture to add that, like me, your performance on those tests has influenced the options available to...

Why the Admissions Scandal Matters to MAA

By Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America This week’s indictments of prominent, wealthy individuals for illegal actions as they sought admission for their children to elite colleges and universities brings national attention to inequity in access to higher education. While the extreme (and illegal) acts at the center of these stories...

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