AMS Hosts Workshop on Mentoring and Nurturing Students

The American Mathematical Society hosted a National Science Foundation workshop on mentoring and nurturing students on December 3-4, 2004 at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Tucson, Arizona.  The workshop was attended by over 50 department chairs and leaders from across the country.

This workshop was designed to provide participants with ideas and methods that will aid in the development of nurturing environments for students.  This was done by concentrating on mentoring mathematical sciences students through four critical stages in their academic careers:

• Stage 1 :    Freshman-sophomore level mathematics courses
   

• Stage 2 :    Freshman-sophomore level mathematics to junior-senior level mathematics
   

• Stage 3 :    Undergraduate mathematical sciences major to first two years of graduate school in mathematics,
               or to employment, or to graduate and professional schools (other than mathematics)
   

• Stage 4 :    Writing a dissertation in the mathematical sciences

A registration fee of US$40.00 was required of each participant and funding from the National Science Foundation covered participant hotel expenses for up to two nights stay and dinner Friday evening (Dec. 3), as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday (Dec.4).