This year s recipient has participated in MAA throughout his career, striving to make the goals and interests of MAA a reality to the curriculum at his school. When graphing calculator and computer instructional techniques merged with mathematics instruction, he spent considerable time learning to use these tools and integrating them into his coursework. Even this last summer he spent considerable time gaining expertise in the use of Visual Basic in order to use this tool in a course he created on fractals. His attention to detail in these areas has earned him citations in texts such as For All Practical Purposes and Exploring Abstract Algebra with Mathematica. His leadership as a mathematician and as a scholar has also been recognized by his campus where he has provided the highest levels of faculty leadership for years.
Teachers don t get any better than that.
It is my privilege to present the 2001 Indiana Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics to Dr. Francis L. Jones of Huntington College.