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Fullerton : Founders of Institute to Start One Overseas

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The founders of a Cal State Fullerton program to improve math instruction in Southern California high schools have received a $135,598 grant to create a similar program in the Mariana Islands.

Harris S. Shultz, a math professor at Cal State Fullerton, and Ray C. Shiflett, a former Cal State Fullerton professor who is now dean of science at Cal Poly Pomona, founded the Southern California Mathematics Honors Institute in 1984. The institute gives summer workshops to help high school teachers improve their math instruction.

Based on the success of the math institute at Cal State Fullerton, the National Science Foundation awarded Shultz and Shiflett the grant to start a similar program this summer in the Marianas. Formerly a U. S. trust territory, the Marianas Islands is now a commonwealth; the math institute will be launched there in August on the island of Saipan.

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The idea to expand the math institute overseas came from Connie Johnson of Hacienda Heights, a high school math teacher who attended the Cal State Fullerton institute.

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