Episode 11: Dr. Sandra Pryor Clarkson '65

Professor Sandra Pryor Clarkson ‘65
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Ombudsman
Hunter College of the City University of New York
 
Dr. Sandra Clarkson is currently both Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Ombudsman for Hunter College. She is the former Chair of the Hunter College Senate. She has been on the faculty at Hunter since September 1974. Her doctorate is in mathematics education from the University of Georgia. Sandi has published several papers on teaching mathematics/statistics and co-authored nine college-level mathematics texts and seven books of activities for use in elementary and middle school classrooms. 
 
Nationally, she served as co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences [a joint committee of seven mathematical/statistical societies -- AMS-ASA-AWM-IMS-MAA-NCTM-SIAM]. She currently serves as an evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
 
At Hunter, she co-chaired the college’s self-study for Middle States reaccreditation, chaired the Senate Assessment, Student Standing, and Graduate Course of Study Committees and served on the Mellon committee to re-envision the school’s General Education Requirements. Clarkson received the Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence in Service in 2001. She and her colleague Bill Williams won the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction in 2012. She has served as PI or co-PI for grants, totaling more than $600,000, designed to improve instruction in mathematics and statistics.
 
In her spare time, she has completed 20 marathons.