Clarence F. Stephens
Distinguished Teaching Award

2008 Recipient of the Clarence F. Stephens Distinguished Teaching Award:

Laura Person, SUNY-Potsdam

In 1991, the Board of Governors of the MAA established the Section Awards for distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics to recognize teachers of Mathematics at the post-secondary level who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful. Their teaching effectiveness must be documented and must have had influence beyond their own institutions.

Each year the Seaway Section Teaching Award Committee, appointed by the Chair of the Section, chooses a recipient for the Section Award from nominations by Section membership. The awardee is honored at the Spring meeting of the section with a certificate, an invitation to speak, and also becomes the official Section nominee for the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. The national awardees (at most three) are honored at the January meeting of the MAA and receive a $1,000 check and a certificate.

The nominees must:

• Be a member of the MAA.
• Be a college or university teacher assigned at least half the time during the academic year to teaching 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 for the previous year.
• Have at least five years teaching experience in mathematical science.