Two-Year College Representative Report

NEMATYC 2008, “Keeping it Real in 08”, was held on April 11-12 at Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield MA.

MATYCONN’s Spring Meeting will be held on April 25, 2008, at Capital Community College. Guest speaker Phil Mahler, Middlesex (MA) Community College, and one of the co-directors of AMATYC's 2006 document Beyond Crossroads: Implementing Mathematics Standards in the First Two Years of College, will present an overview of this latest standards document for two-year college mathematics education.

Cape Cod Community College will be hosting an AMATYC and CAUSEway Summer Workshop "GAISEing Beyond the Crossroads: Improving Instruction in Introductory Statistics" from June 16-20, 2008 in West Barnstable, MA. Presenters include Bob delMas, University of Minnesota; Mary Parker, University of Texas, Austin; and special topic instructors John Climent, Cecil Community College; and Glenn Miller, Borough of Manhattan Community College. This workshop will provide participants with direct experience that will help them develop classroom activities and assessments that are aligned with both the ASA endorsed Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education and recommendations in the AMATYC publication, Beyond Crossroads.

Middlesex Community College will be hosting another AMATYC SUMMER INSTITUTE, Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum (MAC3), in

Lowell, Massachusetts from July 15-18, 2008. The purpose of this Institute is to provide faculty with the time and assistance to develop mathematics across the curriculum activities and assessments. The Institute, modeled after other national MAC3 programs, offers an overview of the numerous and diverse ways mathematics can be integrated with other disciplines. Session topics include: Service Learning and Community Engagement, Learning Communities Models, Developing Learning Outcomes and Pre/Post

Assessments, and Spreading the MAC Word through Changing the Culture.

On a personal note, I experienced the highlight of my career when I received The Teaching Excellence Award at the AMATYC Conference in Cincinnati in November 2007. This award is intended for educators who have made outstanding contributions to mathematics or mathematics education at a two-year college, with teaching excellence the main focus of the award. I was one of eight community college faculty members presented with this award during the conference and was the first New England recipient in the history of the award.

Lois Martin

Massasoit Community College