President's Message

I hope you had an enjoyable summer and that your fall term is off to a good start. I want to welcome all new mathematics faculty and invite each of you to become a member of IMACC. (See the membership form later in this issue.) I encourage you to ask your colleagues who are members of the IMACC family about how we work together to advance our profession and to enhance and enrich our individual professional lives. IMACC members are a terrific group of dedicated people. Come join us!

The Program Committee has begun to put together some ideas for the annual Allerton House conference, which is scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 3-5, 1997. We have reviewed the evaluations from last spring's conference, which contained several helpful suggestions. To help make next spring's conference meet your professional needs, I encourage all members to let me know of any topic you would like to see addressed, or if you have other suggestions, please send them my way soon. The Program Committee welcomes your ideas, and we shared some of them with the IMACC Board at our fall meeting, which was held on Saturday, October 5, at Illinois Central College in East Peoria.

I hope many of you will be able to attend this year's AMATYC annual meeting in Long Beach, November 14-17. If you have not yet received a program and registration form for this conference, contact the AMATYC Office at State Technical Institute at Memphis, 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN 38134, or use their email address: amatyc@stim.tec.tn.us. The AMATYC annual meeting offers a wide variety of interesting sessions which address topics of specific interest to two-year college mathematics faculty.

This issue's President's Problems section contains a different kind of problem which offers more of a teaching challenge than a mathematical one. I'd like to know whether including a problem of this type is of interest to you or if you would rather have problems which are purely mathematical in nature. I look forward to hearing your responses to this issue's problem and your opinions of this problem type.

Enjoy the rest of this issue of the ConneXion! Marvin Johnson and his colleagues at College of Lake County continue to do an excellent job of putting together a quality newsletter for our IMACC members.

I hope to see you in Long Beach or at Allerton.

Karl M. Zilm, President