Montgomery County Community College Mathematics Senior Lecturer, Michelle Eppleman, received one of the College’s Part-Time Teaching Excellence Award during an online ceremony.

Eppleman knows the dread that some of her students have about taking a math class. She had that same dread once, too.

“I remember my heart pounded out of my chest,” said Eppleman. “As a kid, I was good at math. Then somewhere around junior high school, I must have been absent for the day they taught everything in math. It was not my thing.”

Yet, she rediscovered a love for the subject while tutoring at MCCC, where she began her tenure at the College as a student in 1993.

She was a business major enrolled in an accounting class and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance in 2000, followed by a master’s degree in mathematics in 2005.

Nearly 20 years later, Eppleman said receiving the award this year is the accomplishment she is most proud of. It’s a reaffirmation of her belief that anyone can succeed in math, whether it comes naturally to them or not.

Letters of nomination from Eppleman’s students were read aloud at the ceremony, expressing how Eppleman’s teaching style helps make hard concepts easy to understand, as well as inciting a newfound respect, love and passion for math.

“I do what I do because I love the students,” Eppleman said. “I really do.”

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