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The goals for the North Central Section NExT are:

• To create a venue at our MAA Section Meetings and via a section List-serve in which the needs and concerns of new faculty can be openly discussed with a regional network of mathematicians.

• To inform participants about current trends and innovations in undergraduate education.

• To establish collaboration and interaction between people from the many different kinds of institutions in our section, including private colleges, state universities, liberal arts colleges and community colleges.

• To encourage the participation of new faculty in the activities of the North Central Section of the MAA.

• To support the professional development of new faculty by the establishment of a peer support group that provides important contacts for beginning faculty.

Join Us!

• Each year, applications will be solicited for new MAA-NCS Section NExT fellows to serve for a two year term. We will accept applications from faculty who are within the first four years of beginning full-time employment with teaching responsibilities at the college or university level. The application consists of a short personal statement and a letter of support from the department chair.

• A Section NExT fellow will attend meetings of the North Central Section of the MAA. At each meeting there will be special activities for the Section NExT fellows.

• The Section will provide financial support for the evening dinner at the fall and spring NExT meetings and pay for registration for NExT fellows at the fall and spring MAA-NCS meetings.

• National NExT fellows within the North Central Section in their first four years of teaching are automatically Section NExT fellows and are encouraged to participate in Section NExT activities!