Short-term and Long-term Goals

A tenured faculty member at a community college has responsibilities to create and teach valuable courses for students, give students rewarding extracurricular experiences, support fellow faculty, staff and administrators, and interface with the community. My goals for the next year, five years and ten years fall into these categories.

Short-term Goals

At the end of this academic year, I will have taught the math/physics learning community twice, and have had the opportunity to iterate on the curriculum to make it closely aligned with the course outcomes. I would like to incorporate some of these examples and ideas into my Calculus I course. I believe this would provide my students a better understanding toward why we are learning the mathematical concepts and demonstrate their applications. I would like to further improve the support course MATH 016, which is a component for the co-requisite for introductory statistics (MATH& 146). This class provides the tools necessary for students who are not ready for college-level statistics to be successful in the course. This eliminates the need for students to take additional pre-college courses and, as a result, fast-track their careers. 

Long-term Goals

I am in the process of collaborating and working with the computer-science department to develop a statistics course that would be suited for students pursuing a degree in computer science. There is  a distinct need for a statistics course focused on manipulating and analyzing big data sets that are used in the industry. I would like to design a course curriculum that focuses on organizing and analyzing big data sets, and creating meaningful models that can be leveraged for valid predictions.