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Project ACCCESS is a joint AMATYC and MAA initiative to provide mentoring and professional development for two-year college mathematics faculty. The project's goal is to provide experiences that will help new faculty become more effective teachers and active members of the broader mathematical community.
Project ACCCESS Fellows attend two consecutive AMATYC national meetings, and in the intervening year attend an MAA Section meeting near their home institution, where they may participate in Section NExT activities as well as the regular meeting. Clearly, because Section NExTs are locally run, each Section NExT will be in charge of determining how best to promote the inclusion of these new faculty into the Section NExT activities. We expect that they will, as new faculty who are enthusiastic about their transition into the professional role as faculty members, be a valuable addition to both the Section meeting and the Section NExT. In addition, the ExxonMobil funding for Project ACCCESS includes funds for Section NExTs to facilitate the inclusion of two-year college faculty and Project ACCCESS Fellows in Section NExT activites.
The involvement of Project ACCCESS Fellows in a Section NExT is to foster the Fellows' professional involvement in their geographic region, which we hope will continue because of the ease of travel to local meetings. In addition, the experience will produce local networks among the Fellows and between them and other mathematics faculty at both two- and four-year colleges and universities in their region.
Questions regarding the nature of Project ACCCESS Fellows' involvement in the MAA Sections and Section NExTs, may be directed to Gavin LaRose (glarose<at>umich<dot>edu). We're also happy to provide information about what different Section NExTs are doing to involve two-year college faculty and Project ACCCESS Fellows in Section meetings and Section NExT activities -- contact Gavin.