Subject: November 5th! Mathematics IMPAC conference at Sacramento State

Greetings,

IMPAC is a California project organized by the faculty Senates of the UC, CSU and CC systems to improve the transfer preparation and articulation of community college students in the major disciplines. If there is another member of your department who is involved seriously in the transfer process, please forward this message to that person.
This message is about the IMPAC conferences in mathematics for 2005-2006. This year the IMPAC conferences in mathematics will have a new look based in part on the recommendations of last year's participants to have more local conferences with greater opportunity for faculty to make more lasting connections.

The major objective of these conferences will be to increase communication between the college and university faculty through meaningful exchange of information. The intent is to create a greater sense of a mathematics community that will benefit the students at the community colleges who plan to major in mathematics. College faculty will be able to learn more about what is going on at the universities including the CSU Lower Division Transfer Patterns (LDTP) Project and the UC Major Preparation Programs while the University and college faculty will be able to share more about how crucial mathematics lower division courses are being taught.

Participation from the Community College, CSU and UC mathematics departments will help make this the most successful year for achieving improvement for articulating transfer students and their courses in mathematics. Each department should send at least one and possibly two members to at least one these meetings- someone with the responsibility of making articulation agreements and someone with responsibility for advising transferring students.

As of today, six math department chairs have responded to my calls to host IMPAC local Mathematics conferences in 2005-2006; Sacramento State, San Francisco State, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Stanislaus, CSU Monterey Bay, and UC San Diego.

As a result, the first of these conferences will take place on Saturday, November 5th, on the campus of Sacramento State University. I am happy to invite you to attend or send a representative of your mathematics department to attend this conference.

Here is a chronological calendar of many of the 2005-2006 IMPAC related events.

Nov. 5 Sacramento State
Nov. 12 AMATYC national conference meeting date in San Diego.
Nov. 19 IMPAC regional meeting in LA at the Sheraton.
Dec. 2 CMC^3 - Monterey conference
Dec. 3 Dominguez Hills

Jan 21 IMPAC Regional Meeting in SFO Westin
Feb 11 CSU MB
Feb 25 UC San Diego
March 4. CMC^3 South conference
April 1 San Francisco State
April 8 CSU Stanislaus
May 6 IMPAC statewide meeting at LAX

Here is the tentative list of community colleges and universities that are invited to this conference at Sacramento State, though other universities may choose to attend. Colleges will be invited to attend only one conference- Universities will be invited to one, but are welcome to attend others as they wish.

* American River College
* Butte College
* College of the Redwoods
* College of the Siskiyous
* Cosumnes River College
* CSU Chico
* CSU Sacramento
* Feather River College
* Folsom Lake College
* Humboldt State University
* Lake Tahoe Community College
* Lassen College
* Mendocino College
* Napa Valley College
* Sacramento City College
* Shasta College
* Sierra College
* Solano Community College
* UC Davis
* Yuba College
* San Joaquin Delta College (added at request of Sac. State)

IMPAC will cover reasonable travel costs for participants and will provide a continental breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack at the conference.

IMPAC will handle preregistration and distribution of any relevant documents. I will work together with all participants in developing an agenda for this conference that addresses local as well as statewide issues. These agenda and other relevant information will be posted at the IMPAC Math website http://www.humboldt.edu/~mef2/IMPAC/MATHIMPAC.html

If you know you or a representative will attend this conference you can preregister now by returning an e-mail message to me.

If you have any suggestions or questions about this year's IMPAC programs in Mathematics please feel free to contact me. I look forward to seeing you or your representative at this meeting on Saturday, November 5th.

Cordially,
Martin Flashman
IMPAC Lead Faculty for Mathematics