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of Mathematics Jessica Sklar’s in 2011 was the first. In addition, 2005 Mathematics Professor Chris Meyer received MAA’s Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics award, and Professor Jeff Stuart earned its Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001 while at a different institution. “As a small department, we have received more than our share of MAA recognition—can I say I think it is because we have a lot of talent?” Heath said. “Since it is so difficult to get an article published

to pursue, it was far enough away from Tukwila to feel like he was going off to college, but close enough to home that he could easily return for visits.  Founded and run by the Tacoma-based nonprofit Degrees of Change, the Act Six program identifies and rewards scholars who are passionate about learning, eager to foster intercultural relationships, willing to step out of their comfort zones, committed to serving those around them, and want to use their college education to make a difference on

practice using different Sakai tools and templates. The Teaching and Learning with Sakai site contains a few practice activities for experimenting with Sakai Assignments, Forums, Tests & Quizzes, or Announcements tools. How can Sakai enhance your teaching? If you’re still not sure whether Sakai would be useful for your own course, consider scheduling a consultation to discuss course goals and strategies by emailing teaching@plu.edu. Any course can benefit from the use of Sakai, even if an instructor is

. Just then he’s interrupted, for about the fourth time. “Mr. MacDougall, I’ve got Brian’s spit on me!” Not everyone is cut out to be a middle school teacher, he admits. But he absolutely loves the age. His second year of teaching, he remembers absolutely hating the profession. But he pushed through and, by the fourth year, it all began to click. Back to Class Acts Main Read Previous Biologist use Murdock grants to study birds, fish Read Next Looking into the laws behind adoption COMMENTS*Note: All