The Pi Mu Epsilon National Lectureship Grant Program

The Pi Mu Epsilon national office will pay up to $500 of the costs of transportation, food, and lodging to send a national Councillor to visit your Chapter to meet your students, faculty, and administrators, and give a talk.  A Chapter that would like to participate in the program should submit a proposal about one page in length, certainly no more than two, that contains the following:

• Contact information of the author. Be sure to include the name of your Pi Mu Epsilon Chapter.
• Suggested convenient dates for the anticipated visit, and a suggested schedule of events for the Councillor's visit.
• An estimate of the number of students the Councillor will meet.
• The anticipated benefits of the Councillor's visit to your Chapter.

The main goals for this continuing program are:

• To better facilitate communication between the national organization and the Chapters.
• To help Chapters develop programs that are interesting and stimulating for their members.
• To increase undergraduate mathematics scholarship including, of course, student participation in professional meetings, particularly in the national Pi Mu Epsilon Conferences.

The “fineprint”:

• Send your proposal as an email attachment to Leo@jcu.edu by Friday, May 8, 2009. (If this deadline is impossible for you, by May 8 email Leo with the date he can expect your proposal.)
• At its August 2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Council Meeting in Portland, at least five Chapters will be selected for visits during the 2009-2010 year. The national Pi Mu Epsilon President will notify all applicants of the Council's decision before Tuesday, September 5, 2009.
• Proposals that we won’t be able to fund this year will be held over for consideration for funding during the 2010-2011 academic year.
• Chapters that have received this grant in the past three years need special justification for a repeat of the grant.
• Pi Mu Epsilon's President will select one of the national Councillors to visit the Chapter and give the Lecture on a mutually convenient schedule between September 2009 and June 2010.
• The Councillor will meet with the Chapter's student officers, and possibly other members, to learn about current activities and aspirations for their Pi Mu Epsilon Chapter, and to provide guidance and suggestions.
• The Councillor will meet with the Chapter's faculty advisors, other faculty, and key institutional administrators to discuss financial and scholarly support for the Chapter.
• If the Chapter wishes, it may invite students and faculty from nearby Pi Mu Epsilon Chapters or other four-year institutions with mathematics majors to attend the Lecture.
• The Council will pay all of the expenses of the Councillor up to $500; any expenses over $500 will be the responsibility of the Chapter.

Leo Schneider
National Secretary-Treasurer of Pi Mu Epsilon, Inc.