• Continue to develop courses in the program

            • Recruit students and increase enrollment

            • Increase the number of GAs

            • Continue to explore internship and research experiences for the graduate students

            • Publicize the program

            • Consider which courses at the graduate and undergraduate level would be suited for renumbering at the 500 (e.g. 457 and 657 could be changed to 557)

• Hire two additional full-time faculty members to (a) replace a retiring faculty member and (b) to reduce our over reliance on adjuncts. Additional faculty members would allow us to strengthen our faculty and obtain expertise in areas not covered by current faculty and improve the quality of our instruction especially in our freshman level courses.

            • Develop a Department specific orientation for adjuncts and new faculty

• Implement the changes made in the previous year to include: offer the courses in the Calculus sequence as 4 credit hours for each course; offer a course in applied statistics; offer our new course in mathematical computing; new requirements for BS in Elementary Education with Mathematics emphases

            • Mathematics major – continue to examine the courses in the program

            • Reexamine the courses required for the BS in Adolescence Education Mathematics

            • Examine requirements for writing intensive courses / active learning courses and see which of our courses satisfy these requirements

• Continue to utilize technology in our Calculus sequence (Maple, Desmos, MatLab, etc.)

            • Incorporate the use of MatLab in numerous courses – computational computing course, linear algebra, graduate courses

            • Incorporate the use of GeoGebra in appropriate courses – Math 361, Math 322, Math 222, etc.

            • Explore the possibility of a site license for MatLab

• Lobby with the administrative departments that award scholarships to help increase enrollments in Mathematics

            • Consider outreach programs to attract more majors – connect with high schools, host a math day for high school students, contact local parochial feeder schools, summer workshops, etc.

• Obtain a computer lab dedicated to the Department of Mathematics with special software needed to update our curriculum and to support both our undergraduate and graduate programs

            • Obtain contiguous office space, individual offices for full-time faculty, open public area, student lounge