MAA NCS 2023 summer seminar
Facilitator Bios
Dr. Lily Khadjavi is a Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Dr. Khadjavi's scholarly activity lies in the intersections of mathematics and social justice and in broadening participation in the mathematical sciences. Her research includes a focus on policing and the issue of racial profiling, and in 2020 she was appointed by California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act Board which works with the California Department of Justice. Since 2016, she has served as Principal Investigator for the Association for Women in Math's National Science Foundation-funded travel and mentoring grant program.
Dr. Gizem Karaali is professor of mathematics at Pomona College. She is a founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/) and a senior editor of Numeracy (digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/), the journal of the National Numeracy Network. Karaali has published over a hundred articles as well as four edited volumes. In the last decade, Karaali received federal grants for her research and teaching (from the National Security Agency and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Through her career, she has served the MAA's Special Interest Group on Quantitative Literacy (SIGMAA-QL) in various capacities, chairing it in 2018-2020, and organized or facilitated several paper sessions and professional development workshops for mathematics faculty and K-12 teachers on a wide range of themes such as humanistic mathematics, teaching math for social justice, and writing. Karaali is a Sepia Dot (a 2006 Project NExT Fellow).
MAA NCS 2023 Summer Seminar Planning Team
John Zobitz, Augsburg University
Megan Breit-Goodwin, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Aaron Wangberg, Winona State University
Julia Walk, Concordia College (jwalk@cord.edu)
Welcome to the homepage for the MAA NCS 2023 Summer Seminar.
Seminar Title: Mathematics and Data for Social Justice
June 7 - 9, 2023
Augsburg University (campus map)
Description: The Mathematics and Data for Social Justice Summer Seminar (NSF #2303556) is a three-day seminar designed to equip North Central Section math and statistics faculty with skills and practices to meaningfully incorporate social justice themes in their classrooms and curricula. The seminar will include workshops led by national experts Dr. Lily Khadjavi and Dr. Gizem Karaali, as well as panels on facilitating effective classroom discussion with students. Participants are expected to continue collaborating and learning in 2023-2024 via special topics sessions at the North Central Section MAA meetings and on MAA Connect.
The Seminar capacity is 30 instructors. The NSF is heavily funding the seminar, reducing expenses for participants to $100 registration fee, their local housing costs, meals, and their own travel expenses. If any fees become a barrier to participation, please reach out to the project team.
The NSF has provided travel support of $250 for 25 participants as well as care funds of $150 (for each of 25 participants) to support seminar participation.
In order to ensure we maximize the impact of our NSF funding, we are asking potential seminar participants to share with us:
The opportunities (and challenges) of implementing materials in their classrooms during the 2023-2024 academic year
The ability to continue collaborating and engage a community of practice in the 2023-2024 academic year
The ability to share their experiences through dissemination at MAA NCS Section meetings or at their own institution
The Participant Interest Form (above) will be open until April 30, with participants notified on a rolling basis.
Questions? Contact Julia Walk at jwalk@cord.edu
