2022 MLE Award Recipient

Nancy Sattler was awarded the 2022 Mathematics Excellence Award. Nancy was honored with this award by President Laura Watkins at the AMATYC Annual Conference in Toronto.

Nancy has been instrumental in improving mathematics education. In addition to being the president of AMATYC from 2014 to 2015, she has served AMATYC in many roles. These roles include chairing various AMATYC committees, and serving on the Executive Board as the Treasurer and Midwest Regional Vice President. Her service to AMATYC also included co-chairing the committee that wrote AMATYC's IMPACT. In addition to her leadership during the writing process for this important document, she has tirelessly promoted the document to members of AMATYC and other organizations.

In addition to volunteering for AMATYC, Nancy assists many other organizations. She has been the historian, webmaster, and president of OhioMATYC; co-chair, webmaster, and social media administrator of the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences; and a member of the Mathematics Advisory Group for Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math) where she is a co-chair of TPSE Math's Teaching Strategies and Practices subgroup. She is also a member of the Mathematical Association of America, Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences. As evident from her nomination materials, when Nancy is a member of an organization, she makes sure that she is doing what she can to further the work of the organization.

Improving mathematics education is important to Nancy. She has facilitated numerous conference presentations and webinars to provide guidance to others. In addition, she has worked on several grants to provide the funds to aid colleges to improve their teaching. Through her numerous publications, her knowledge has been shared widely. Over her teaching career, she was a faculty member and dean at Terra CC, and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Walden University. Throughout her career she has earned several awards for excellence in teaching. Her distinguished career has been instrumental in improving mathematics education in the first two years of college.

With all of these accomplishments, Nancy is well deserving of the Mathematics Excellence Award. As said by Mary Beth Orrange in her letter of nomination, "Her strong voice for mathematics excellence is evident on every level; from helping her home-schooled grandsons with their math classes to her own classes, to leading national organizations. She presents, writes, leads, and fosters mathematics learning wherever possible." Congratulations to Nancy on receiving this prestigious award.