A mathematician and educational innovator, Randy Gabel has been involved in SENCER-related activities for many years.  He is acutely aware of the stumbling block that mathematics can be for students wishing to pursue further education in a variety of disciplines.  Randy is equally acutely aware of how vital it is that students develop a working knowledge of math as a condition of ‘membership’ or ‘belonging’ in many professions, especially teaching.

As a SENCER Leadership Fellow, Randy will be exploring how helping students learn classical mathematics through enabling them to ‘teach’ this math to their peers can be a form of civic engagement that qualifies as practical and useful, in the SENCER tradition, not because it is tied to a specific contemporary civic question, but precisely because students can practice and use it.

Randy was elected to the inaugural class of Leadership Fellows in July 2008.