Project NExT-Wisconsin
 Report to MAA Wisconsin Section Executive Committee
 September 19, 2003
 Prepared by Benjamin V.C. Collins
 collinbe@uwplatt.edu


 Project NExT-WI has 34 enrolled members.  Recruitment was light this 
 fall.  There was a mix-up in the mail, and at least some of my 
 recruiting material didn't arrive at all.  The workshop was also very 
 early in the year -- the end of the second week of classes for many 
 schools -- which made it harder for a brand new faculty member to get 
 away.  I intend to send follow-up letters to all my potential recruits, 
 inviting them to join even though the workshop is past.  If they get on 
 our mailing list, they will have some idea of what we are doing.

 Twenty-one people attended the fall workshop.  The presenters, Allan 
 Rossman and Beth Chance of California Polytechnic State University, San 
 Luis Obispo, did a fine job.  One participant told me on Friday morning, 
 after only the opening activity Thursday evening, that that activity had 
 been worth the price of admission.

 It's clear that the workshop was more valuable for those of us who 
 teach stats regularly.  Those who don't teach stats were a little less 
 excited about it.  I'm going to try to get a speaker for next year who 
 is more general.  

 Hot off the presses:  Our presenter for the Fall 2004 meeting will be 
 Sr. Barbara Reynolds of Cardinal Stritch University.  She will run a 
 workshop on Cooperative Learning in the Mathematics Classroom.  The 
 dates are Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2004.

 I hesitate to even write this, but the "Project NExT-Wisconsin Speaker 
 Series" is almost a reality.  We had a lot of people add talks at the 
 workshop.  As soon as those get typed up, we plan to send the list to 
 department chairs.

 I don't yet have plans for the Spring meeting.  I'm taking suggestions.


 Respectfully,


 Benjamin V.C. Collins
 Director, Project NExT-Wisconsin