Background
Selden, John was born on September 28, 1934 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Son of John and Elizabeth de Movelle (Barton) Selden.
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John Selden
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Bachelor, U. Miami, Florida, 1955; Master of Science, Tulane University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Georgia, 1963.
Career
Instructor, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, 1958-1959;
instructor, U. Georgia, Athens, 1962-1963;
assistant professor, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1963-1969;
associate professor, U. N.B., Fredericton, Canada, 1969-1970;
associate professor, Clarkson U., Potsdam, New York, 1970-1973;
associate professor, William Paterson U., Wayne, New Jersey, 1973-1974;
associate professor, Bosphorus U. (formerly Robert College), Istanbul, Turkey, 1974-1978;
professor, head department mathematics, Bayero U., Kano, Nigeria, 1978-1985;
dean science, Bayero U., Kano, Nigeria, 1983-1985;
assistant professor mathematics, Tennessee Technological U., Cookeville, 1985-1992;
visiting scholar, Peabody College Vanderbilt University, 1992-1993;
visiting scholar division education in mathematics, science and technical, University of California, Berkeley, 1993;
president, Mathematics Education Resource Company, Cookeville, Tennessee, since 1994. Organizer professional symposia. External examiner U. Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, University Jos, U. Sokoto, Nigeria, 1978-1985.
Principal investigator ILI grant, 1989-1992, reviewer ILI program, 1991.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Association of University Professors, American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (commission on research in undergraduate mathematics education since 1991), Association Women in Mathematics, American Mathematics Association Two-Year Colls., Association for Computing Machinery, International Group for Psychology Mathematics Education, American Ednl. Research Association (special interest group research in math.edn.), Nigerian Mathematics Society (governing county 1980-1984), Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Mu Epsilon.
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Married Annie Laurer Alexander, May 24, 1974.
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American