Patricia Clark Kenschaft

Recruitment and Retention of Students in Undergraduate Mathematics.

Pat Kenschaft is professor of mathematics at Montclair State College, where she has taught since earning her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in functional analysis. She is Chair of the MAA Committee on Participation of Women and was organizer, chair, and editor of the January, 1987 panel on which this article is based. Author of numerous research papers about women, blacks, and careers in mathematics, she has also written several college textbooks. She currently leads programs to develop mathematics education in elementary schools. Mother of two grown offspring and wife of Fred Chichester, she is an avid organic gardener.