Presenter Profile

Dr. Milton Cox
Director for Teaching Effectiveness Programs
Miami University of Ohio

Dr. Cox is Director for Teaching Effectiveness at Miami University, where he founded and directed the annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching. He is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching. He directs the 1994 Hesburgh Award-winning Teaching Scholars Community for Junior Faculty and oversees the other learning communities at Miami. For the past thirty years he has taught mathematics, designing and teaching courses that celebrate and share with students the beauty of mathematics. He incorporates the use of student learning portfolios and Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences in his mathematics classes. Cox has developed programs to enable the presentation of undergraduate student papers at national professional meetings. In 1988 he received the C.C. MacDuffee Award for Distinguished Service to Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Mathematics Honorary Society.