Jane C. Purcell Coffee (1944–2022) was an American mathematician, one of the first women to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the founder of the Teacher Education Honors Academy at the College of Staten Island.
[3] During this time, she lived with her husband in Maplewood, New Jersey, commuting to their jobs in Staten Island and in New York City, respectively.
In the late 1970s, Coffee took a new faculty position, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, at about the same time as her husband became a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
[2] After this, Coffee returned to the College of Staten Island, as chair of mathematics, and her husband moved to Columbia University.
The academy aimed at improving that situation by preparing college students for a career as a secondary school STEM educator.