Nominations for the annual Indiana Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are now being accepted. The Indiana Section Selection Committee will choose one of the nominees for the Section Award. The awardee will be honored at the Spring 2009 Section Meeting at University of Indianapolis and will be widely recognized and acknowledged within the Section. The awardee will also be the official Section candidate for the pool of Section awardees from which the national recipients of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards will be selected (except that one of the national winners may be selected from another source). There will be at most three national awardees, each of whom will be honored at the national MAA meeting in January 2010 and receive a $1,000 check and a certificate.

Anyone is entitled to make a nomination, but nominations from chairs in departments of mathematical sciences are especially solicited. Although it is not mandatory, involvement of a nominee in preparing the nomination packet is permitted and encouraged. However, self-nomination is not permitted. A previous nominee for this award who did not become a Section awardee can be nominated again. Indeed, the Section has instructed the selection committee that "meritorious nominations for the Distinguished Teaching Award which do not result in an award will be continued as active nominations for the next year's Distinguished Teaching Award and, if again not successful, will be continued for a third year as well.''

ELIGIBILITY

• College or university teachers assigned at least half-time during the academic year to teaching of a mathematical science in a public or private college or university (from two-year college teaching through teaching at the Ph.D. level) in the United States or Canada. Those on approved leave (sabbatical or other) during the academic year in which they are nominated qualify if they fulfilled the requirements in the previous year.
• At least five years teaching experience in a mathematical science.
• Membership in the Mathematical Association of America.

GUIDELINES FOR NOMINATION

• be widely recognized as extraordinarily successful in their teaching*
• have teaching effectiveness that can be documented
• have had influence in their teaching beyond their own institutions**
• foster curiosity and generate excitement about mathematics in their students.

Nominations must be submitted on the official Nomination Form, a copy of which is can be downloaded from this web site. Please follow the instructions on that form precisely to assure uniformity in the selection process both at the Section and National levels. In addition, Evidence of Extraordinary Success in Teaching is required.

Please send each nomination packet to

so as to be received no later than February 1, 2009.

We look forward to your participation in this exciting MAA venture of taking substantive action to honor extraordinarily successful teaching. We want to see such teaching recognized at all post-secondary school levels. We depend on you to help us identify those who merit such recognition.