Phil Marcus
Affiliate Instructor
Bradley Hall 442
(309) 677-4853
philnjudy@yahoo.com
Ph.D., Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Biography
While a graduate student at Illinois Institute of Technology, Phil Marcus sang with Chicago Symphony Chorus from 1960 to 1966. After retiring as Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Eureka College, where he also served as chair of the interdisciplinary freshman Western Civilization course and as a member of the Eureka College Chorale, Dr. Marcus has been teaching part-time at Bradley. After teaching Introductory Statistics over and over again, he has become reasonably good at it. He is also a long-time member (since 1979) of the Bradley Community Chorus.
Teaching
- 1958 Undergraduate teaching assistant, University of Chicago
- 1960-1961 Teaching assistant, Illinois Institute of Technology
- 1961-1962 Instructor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 1962-1966 Instructor of Mathematics, De Paul University, Illinois
- 1966-1970 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Shimer College, Illinois
- Chair of Natural Science 1967-8, 1969-70
- Director, Shimer-in-Oxford Program 1968-9
- 1970-1976 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Indiana University at South Bend
- 1976-1977 Instructor of Statistics, University of Kentucky
- 1977-1979 Associate Professor of Mathematics, Christian Brothers College, Tennessee
- 1979-1998 Associate Professor, then Full Professor of Mathematics, Eureka College, Illinois
- Chair, freshman Western Civilization, 1991-1997
Scholarship
In January 2011, I gave a talk at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society on a better way to teach Introductory Statistics
Service
Longtime member of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America
