Fwd: teaching opportunity in georgetown's bla program

[Jessica Sadler]

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From: Doron Levy <dl...@umd.edu>
Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: teaching opportunity in georgetown's bla program
To: <MATH-...@listserv.umd.edu>

Dear All,

Please see the request below and contact Emily directly in case you are interested in a getting involved with the project.

Sincerely,

Doron

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Doron Levy
Professor and Chair
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Director, Brin Math Research Center

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On Sep 17, 2025, at 5:26 PM, Emily Hainze <eh...@georgetown.edu> wrote:

The BLA Program is a Bachelor's degree program for incarcerated students that Georgetown's Prisons and Justice Initiative facilitates at Patuxent Institution in Jessup, MD. MATH 1040 introduces students to statistics and is a required course for all BLA students.

Spring classes run from January 13th to April 27th. Each course meets twice a week for two hours per session, and we generally have teaching times available M/W or T/Th in the morning and afternoon, with some scheduling flexibility. The pay is $8,000 for the semester. I have included the course description for MATH 1040 below. The instructor for this course should have either a Masters or PhD degree (PhD preferred). 

BLA students take classes in a cohort of about 20-25 students for the first years of the program, and form a tight-knit intellectual community. Anyone incarcerated in MD is able to apply to our program, and the students are incredibly dedicated and engaged. 

MATH 1040: Probability and Statistics course description

This course will introduce students to the basic concepts, logic, and issues involved in statistical reasoning, as well as basic statistical methods used to analyze data and evaluate studies. The major topics to be covered include methods for exploratory data analysis, an introduction to sampling and experimental design, elementary probability theory and random variables, and methods for statistical inference including simple linear regression. The objectives of this course are to help students develop a critical approach to the evaluation of study designs, data and results, and to develop skills in the application of basic statistical methods in empirical research. An important feature of the course will be the use of statistical software to facilitate the understanding of important statistical ideas and for the implementation of data analysis. 

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Emily Hainze (she/her)

Assistant Teaching Professor

Associate Director, Bachelor of Liberal Arts Program

Prisons and Justice Initiative
Georgetown University