In the course of last year, we launched three programs about which many people know some things and some people know many things, but nobody knows everything. All are in need of outside input to help prevent them from becoming the output of insiders. Ergo, the first Brown Bag Teaching/Learning seminar of 94/95 will be some blend of information dessimination and idea generation about

1. The Pew Grant for Preparing Future Faculty (for which we are partners with the math departments of Seattle University and Seattle Central Community College,)
2. The MER (Mathematicians and Educational Reform) Task Force (for which we are working with a community of research university math departments)
3. The upcoming visit of Uri Treisman (on which we are collaborating with a number of departments around UW, including the Office of Minority Affairs and MESA (Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement) in an effort to increase minority participation in science and math.)