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I discovered a new field of mathematics.

I have the ambitious wish to include it into college standard programs.

Who makes the standards? How the standards work? Which procedure one needs to follow to change the standards?

How to make my new field of math into college standards?

My question received two downvotes. Why? It may be very hard to do in practice. But my questions is quite valid as a theoretical issue, independently on whether I can implement it in practice.

There was proposed that my question was answered in I believe I have solved a famous open problem. How do I convince people in the field that I am not a crank?.

It is not so: My question is unlike that question not about acceptance by community but about how standards (documents, not just opinions) setting higher education standards are managed (who writes them, who votes for them, etc.) Maybe I have not made it enough clear, but my question is about documents not people (while that other question is about people).

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    Since you're asking why the downvotes: the sheer arrogance of this question is why I downvoted.
    – user9646
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:28
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    Possible duplicate of I believe I have solved a famous open problem. How do I convince people in the field that I am not a crank?
    – shoover
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:49
  • @shoover It is not a duplicate. Convincing people that one solved a famous problem has nothing to do with education standards. My question, even if I haven't stressed this enough, is about education standards, not about acceptance by community in general
    – porton
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:52
  • @MorganRodgers I try to explain that the question (at least how I had it in mind) was not about convincing people but about the formal procedures to get my course into the relevant document (not how to convince the document writers, but about the procedure)
    – porton
    Commented Jun 9, 2018 at 0:10
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    This question is based on a false premise. No higher education standard lists tge courses taught in academia.
    – reinierpost
    Commented Jun 10, 2018 at 8:16

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So you've discovered a new field of mathematics. Congratulations. But results don't usually jump from research level to college level immediately: the new field takes time to be explored, confirmed, and understood. If your mathematician peers think it's worth teaching, they'll eventually start teaching it. Eventually. This can take years or even decades, e.g. see this comic.

As for who makes the standards: they arise by consensus. There's a reasonably well-defined set of ideas that everyone agrees an undergraduate should know (see examples for physics). To insert your new field into college syllabus, you must convince your peers that it's correct, interesting, relevant, etc.

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    My question is specifically about the standards. Do you mean that there is no international higher education standard set by some nonprofit association, but just informal (not written as a certain document) "consensus" of different countries?
    – porton
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:11
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    You tried to convince me that it does not happens quickly. No need to convince, I know this. Maybe it will take 40 years without me actively working on this and 39 years if I receive a proper answer to my question and start actively work on promotion of my research into education standards
    – porton
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:13
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    @porton there is no nonprofit association that sets standards, yes.
    – Allure
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:16
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    add that there is no such organization to your answer, so that I could accept it as the proper answer
    – porton
    Commented Jun 8, 2018 at 23:18
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    That is correct , that there is NO international committee or any committee in the United States that sets educational standards. for higher education. This is especially true in the United States since the the united states has public, private AND religiously affiliated universities , colleges and schools.. i attended religiously affiliated private schools and went to a college of a private university. and graduated twice. There is NO international committee setting higher educations "standards."
    – Carol Miller 1600
    Commented Jun 9, 2018 at 4:38

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