Math Chair Named D.C.’s Top Professor - Georgetown College

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Georgetown’s James Sandefur the 2008 District of Columbia Professor of the Year.

Sandefur, professor and chair of the mathematics department at Georgetown, received the title after being selected from a pool of faculty nominated by colleges and universities throughout Washington, D.C.

This year, there are winners in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. CASE assembled two preliminary panels of judges to select finalists while the Carnegie Foundation then convened the third and final panel, which selected four national winners, who were named today.

“It is very exciting to have received this honor,” says Sandefur. “I was honored just to be nominated by Georgetown, considering all of the wonderful faculty we have here.”