Introductory mathematics primarily serves students in partner disciplines as a prerequisite for their major’s content courses. This Learning Community will walk teams of interdisciplinary faculty through the establishment of a robust, local partnership to develop, deliver, and maintain course content that is relevant for the students in partnering departments. The ideal workshop participants would be 1-3 math faculty who teach and/or coordinate a lower level mathematics course that serves as a prerequisite or corequisite for one or more partner disciplines (Business, Sciences, Engineering, Health, etc.) along with one or more partner discipline faculty.
We will use collaboration techniques established, refined, and studied in connection with the SUMMIT-P Consortium: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (NSF DUE-1625557), as published in two special issues of the Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations Volume 16, Number 1 (2020) and Volume 18, Number 1 (2022). https://www.summit-p.net/home
The tools and protocols curated through this program were successfully used at 12 different institutions which included a wide range of institution types (small liberal arts, large public state institutions, HBCUs, Community Colleges). Examples of the type of course work developed through these partnerships can be found in the MAA Notes volume, Engaging Students in Introductory Mathematics Courses Through Interdisciplinary Partnerships: The SUMMIT-P Model.
The workshop dates are: August 21, August 28, September 18, October 16, November 13, and December 4, 2025; 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
The application deadline to participate in this workshop is August 11, 2025.