Business Meeting
                       Wisconsin Section of the MAA
                              April 26, 2003
                                UW-Marathon
 
 1.  The meeting was called to order at 8:05 by Section Chair, 
     Jonathan Kane.  

 2.  Rick Poss presented his Governor's report.  Of note is that voting 
     for MAA officers may now be done online.  Mathfest will be in 
     Boulder Colorado this summer.  All are encouraged to attend.  

 3.  Ballots were distributed for voting on chair elect.  The two 
     candidates were David Scott, Ripon College and Jayanthi Ganapathy, 
     UW-Oshkosh.  

 4.  John Symms reported on mathematics competitions.  He thanked Sri for 
     doing an excellent job with the national math contests.  This year 
     the following high school students qualified of the invitational 
     math contest:  Kane Po-Ru, Po-Li, Zhang.    The Edgewood College 
     people also garnered accolades for their energetic work on the State 
     contest.  These people are Steven Post, Linda Uselman, and Ken 
     Jewel.  They assemble the contest in September, and Section members 
     are encouraged to help out by sending them possible contest 
     problems.  

     The winner of the balloting for chair elect was announced.  It was 
     Jayanthi Ganapathy.  

 5.  Tony Thomas, reporting as director of student activities, said that 
     student participation was up at the 2003 Annual Spring Meeting.  Out 
     of 34 contributed talks, 16 were presented by students.  There is a 
     new grant program that the MAA has initiated to support math 
     conferences that involve students.  Tony plans to apply for funds 
     under that program to support student participation in our annual 
     meeting.  Doug Faires is a contact person.  

 6.  Project NExT.  Ben V.C. Collins reported on Wisconsin Project NExT.  
     At the present meeting, there was a Panel Discussion, Grading 
     without Tears.  The Fall workshop coming up will be presented by 
     Allan Ross and Beth Chance on teaching Statistics.  Ben asked 
     meeting participants to get word out to junior faculty members that 
     applications are being taken for the program.  

 7.  Committee on Section Awards.  It was suggested that the Past Chair 
     could chair this committee.  Jon Kane allowed that that would be 
     feasible as at present the past chair has no specific jobs.  

 8.  Platteville is the site of next year's annual meeting, which will be 
     held on April 16-17, 2004.  West Bend was approved as the meeting 
     site for 2005.  Cardinal Stritch University and UW-Whitewater 
     expressed interest in hosting the meeting in 2006.  

 9.  Andy requested input on what sorts of things should go in the 
     historical record of the meeting and asked persons to send things.  
     One specific suggestion was to include the list of invited speakers.  

10.  The meeting adjourned at 8:45.

 Respectfully submitted,


 Andrew Matchett,
 Secretary/treasurer
 Wisconsin Section of the MAA