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<div>Dear RUME Community:</div>
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<div>This fall we are holding <b>elections</b> for the SIGMAA on RUME Executive Committee positions of secretary and program chair. </div>
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<div>Please follow the attached link to our electronic election ballot:</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XVSS86G">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XVSS86G</a></div>
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<div>The survey will be open for two weeks, per the MAA's SIGMAA election process. Please be sure to
<b>vote by October 13, 2015.</b></div>
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<div>For your consideration, I am including the position descriptions and candidates below. The candidate's statements of interest are provided on the ballot.</div>
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<div>Thank you for your participation in this important process.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
<div>Stacy Brown</div>
<div>SIGMAA on RUME Nominating Committee, Chair</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; ">RUME – 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; ">Fall Election Candidates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; ">Term: January 2016 – January 2018</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Position #1: Secretary</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Description: </span></b>The Secretary will keep records of official meetings of SIGMAA on RUME and its Executive Committee, overseeing electronic communications, handling correspondence
with the membership, and corresponding with and preparing written reports for submission to the MAA as required. Minutes of the last Business Meeting and a tentative agenda for the next meeting shall be made available electronically no less than one month
prior to the next business meeting by the Secretary.<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Candidate:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Aaron Weinberg<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Associate Professor, <a href="http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/math/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Department of Mathematics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Faculty, <a href="http://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/education/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Graduate Study in Education</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Faculty, <a href="http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">School of Humanities and Sciences</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Ithaca College, NY<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Position #2: Program Chair</span></b></p>
<p><b>Description:</b><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> </span>The Program Chair will assist the Organizational Director in programmatic details such as the planning of conferences and SIGMAA on RUME paper sessions, which may be held in conjunction with the January
AMS/MAA and Summer MAA meetings, in consultation with the Executive Committee. The Program Chair will serve as a liaison with the MAA Associate Secretary concerning arrangements at national MAA meetings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Note: Candidates are listed alphabetically</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Candidate 1:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Paul Dawkins, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Assistant Professor Mathematics Education<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Department of Mathematical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Northern Illinois University<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Candidate 2:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Jason Martin, Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Department of Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">University of Central Arkansas</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Candidate 3:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Megan Wawro, Assistant Professor,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Mathematics Department</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Virginia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<div>Stacy A Brown, Ph.D.</div>
<div>Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics</div>
<div>California State Polytechnic University, Pomona</div>
<div>3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona, CA 91768</div>
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