Project NExT-Wisconsin
Report for Spring Newsletter
January 31, 2002
Prepared by Benjamin V.C. Collins
collinbe@uwplatt.edu

The Fall Meeting of Project NExT-Wisconsin was a resounding success.  
Joseph Gallian of the University of Minnesota-Duluth gave a workshop on 
“Building and Maintaining a Research Program for You and Your 
Undergraduates.”   It was an excellent program.  Joe's enthusiasm and 
love for mathematics are contagious.  I know I wasn’t the only one who 
walked away with renewed energy and excitement.  

After three years as director, Jennifer Szydlik, of UW-Oshkosh, has 
retired to do bigger and better things.  We thank Jen for her patient 
and faithful service.  She built Project NExT-Wisconsin into what I 
think is really one of the finest section NExTs in the country.  The 
new director, Ben Collins, of UW-Platteville, is known for his 
intelligence, energy, charm, wit, and most of all, humility.  I hope 
he’ll be able to fill Jen’s considerable shoes.  

Project NExT-Wisconsin now has a web page, available at 
http://www.uwplatt.edu/~nextwi/. Although it is still in its embryonic 
stages, it will get our name and our message out to the mathematical 
community.  Thanks to Mike Lang and Karl Kattchee, both of UW-La 
Crosse, for putting it together.  

For the Spring MAA Meeting, we’re planning a panel discussion on 
“Professional Development, Promotion, and Tenure.”  This is a topic of 
keen interest to Project NExTers.  You can hardly get four or five of 
us together without a panel discussion on Professional Development, 
Promotion, and Tenure breaking out spontaneously.  So I expect there 
will be a pretty good turnout.  

Project NExT-Wisconsin is open to all full-time faculty members in 
mathematics departments in the Wisconsin Section who have an earned 
doctorate and are within their first four years of post-doctoral 
undergraduate teaching. If this describes you, and you are interested 
in joining us, contact the director (that’s me) at     
collinbe@uwplatt.edu. 

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