Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success

Dr. Holly Hirst is a Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director for the Math MA Program. She has served on the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on the Mathematical Education of Teachers (COMET) from 2009 through 2014, and on the Education Committees and as coordinator for the Mathematics Workshop sessions for Super Computing 2011 (SC11) and Super Computing 2010 (SC10). She has also served as regional coordinator for the Mathematical Association of America's Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers (PMET) initiative and as co-PI on the NSF funded National Computational Science Institute and Shodor Computational Science Institute. She also helps with the Project Interactivate and other mathematics and computational science initiatives at The Shodor Education Foundation. She has served from 2005 through 2013 as the Associate Dean in the Cratis Williams Graduate School, during which time she was responsible for and supervised staff in graduate recruiting, admissions, assistantships, and records. In that capacity, she has served on many University committees and as secretary for the North Carolina Conference of Graduate Schools.