DIRECTOR
Boston College Mathematics Institute
Stanley J. Bezuszka, S.J., a native of Poland, arrived in the USA at an early age and received his primary and secondary education in Lowell, Massachusetts. After entering the Jesuit order he continued his academic pursuits at Weston College, Boston College and Brown University.
Father Bezuszka has had a long and distinguished career in mathematics education. He has led well over 900 presentations, workshops and minicourses of a mathematical nature in this country and overseas. These presentations have been marked with deep insights about mathematics content and the teaching and learning of mathematics. His talks and conversation are invariably punctuated with humorous stories and anecdotes, the majority of which pertain to teachers, students and their environment. His years of experience as a mathematics teacher at the university level and as a frequent visitor to classrooms that run the gamut K-12, have provided a wealth of subject matter and subjects for his lively imagination and and keen mind to capture in print.
In 1990 the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics honored their colleague in mathematics education and presented Stanley J. Bezuszka, SJ with the Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award in Mathematics Education for his outstanding service to the profession and in 1995, the Mathematics Education Trust Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics bestowed upon him its Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching. Also in 2001 Stanley Bezuszka, SJ was inducted into the Massachusetts Hall of Fame for Mathematics Educators as a founding member.
