February 11, 2005
Math Achievement-Gap Specialist to Lecture at Mount Holyoke
 Uri
Treisman, a professor of mathematics and executive director of
the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin,
will speak at Mount Holyoke on February 21 at 7:30 pm in Gamble
Auditorium. Treisman is highly regarded for his work fostering
high achievement in mathematics among minority students, for which
he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. In December 1999,
he was named as one of the outstanding leaders of higher education
in the twentieth century by the magazine Black Issues in Higher
Education.
"Treisman has
a national reputation through his work educating students in mathematics,"
said Lucas Wilson, associate professor of African American studies
and economics, chair of African American and African studies,
and director of the Office of Academic Development, which is cosponsoring
the lecture with the President's Office.
Treisman's approach
to academic achievement, said Wilson, "looks at forms of
institutional hospitability and other factors that may develop
the sense of belonging in the sciences as key ingredients in student
persistence and success." The College is interested in exploring
this approach, said Wilson, particularly in the sciences, "to
find more ways to engage students' sense that as white women,
as women of color, as women from socioeconomically diverse backgrounds,
excellence through high achievement in the sciences is our educational
mission."
Treisman is a founding
board member of AVID (a college prep program for students in the
"academic middle," often from low-income and minority
families) and of the National Center for Public Policy in Higher
Education. Among many activities, he is actively involved in the
National Research Council's efforts to develop a Strategic Education
Research Partnership committed to strengthening the evidentiary
basis for improving American educational achievement.
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