Educational and Professional Background

Joyce Riseberg has been teaching in the Mathematics Department at the Rockville Campus since 1973. She attended Vassar College and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1962 with a BA degree in Mathematics. After college, she worked as a computer programmer for a year and then returned to graduate school, receiving her MA in Mathematics from Boston University in 1967. Professor Riseberg taught at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts before moving to the Washington area and obtaining her position at Montgomery College. At MC, Professor Riseberg has taught a variety of courses and has served on numerous committees and as Course Chair for Calculus I and II (MA 181 and 182) and for Elementary Applied Calculus I and II (MA 160 and 161). Professor Riseberg retired from the full-time faculty at the end of the spring 2011 semester but is continuing to teach part-time.