John '54 and Irene '58 Dale Professor of Information Technology, Computer Science, and Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Department of Information Technology & Computer Science
Juniata College

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA 16652

Phone: (814) 641-3595
FAX: (814) 641-3615

E-mail: kruse@juniata.edu

My recent research has focused on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), and assesIng Quantitative Reasoning and Critical Thinking skills in particular.  I am a member of the board of Juniata's James Lakso Center for Teaching and Learning (assuming Directorship for the 2012-13 Academic year), which coincides nicely with my work as a Teagle Teaching and Learning Scholar (here is an overview, from Change magazine, on performance tasks, as well as our Biographies), where I facilitated workshops on the development of Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Performance Tasks.  Besides being named a Teagle Scholar, during the 2010-11 academic year I received the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Teaching Award for the Allegheny Mountain Section, I was promoted to Full Professor, and I was honored with the John '54 and Irene '58 Dale Endowed Professorship in IT, CS, and Math. What a year. I also serve on Juniata's ACE Leadership team for Internationalization. In 2011-12 our group wrote the application for the Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization, and we were one of five institutions selected! My other research interests include Algorithmic Experimentation, Scientific Computing, and Parallel Computing. My Ph.D. thesis (Parallel Nonconforming Spectral Element Solution of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Three Dimensions – Advisor: Dr. Paul Fischer, 1997) was in computational fluid dynamics.  A visualization of one flow that I have studied is at the following link:   http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~fischer/cfd/noncon.html .

If you are interested, here's a link to a more detailed biography.

Pure SoTL "gold" from colleague Jay Hosler, on student motivation:

2003 ITSCE "Magic Numbers"     2005 Joint Math Meetings Paper     2005 Joint Math Meetings Slides     2006 FH-Muenster Slides     2007 Local MAA
2006 Sabbatical Report Slides      2008 Bookend Seminar       SoTL Lunch, Mar 2009       2010 Joint Math Meetings Slides       I4I, Capstone Design Conference, w/Bill Thomas       SoTL BrownBag Lunch, March 2010      2012 Joint Math Meeting Slides      IJSoTL Paper, July 2013

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Oh, my nickname is Jerry. That's with a "J," not a "G." So I also answer to Jerry Kruse. I started running in 2008, and love it. My wife and kids think this video pretty much captures my attitude for running. I've completed a bunch of 5K's, a 10K, a mini-triathlon, and most recently a half-marathon. Yea for me...

Co-organizer of CCSC-E 2010, hosted at Juniata College Oct. 15-16: http://projects.juniata.edu/ccsce10/index.shtml, with a picture of the organizers, keynote and banquet speakers.

Change Magazine Article, Mar/Apr 2010: Taking Teaching To Task

My sister runs Critter Camp, a small animal rescue.

Ny nephew Neil w/Pres. Obama

I am the "web-minister" for St. John's Episcopal Church, Huntingdon, PA.

The Union Dairy in my hometown, Freeport, IL