Minutes of 2006 Business Meeting

Section on Statistical Education
2006 Business Meeting

Christine Franklin, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at 5:55 pm, Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at the Seattle Convention Center, room 606. Those in attendance were:

Mark Berenson	Montclair State University	berensonm at mail.montclair.edu
Carol Joyce Blumberg	Winona State University	cblumberg at winona.edu
KB Boomer	Penn State	boomer at stat.psu.edu
John Boyer	Kansas State University	jboyer at ksu.edu
Ann Cannon	Cornell College	acannon at cornellcollege.edu
Matt Carlton	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo	mcarlton at calpoly.edu
Rob Carver	Stonehill College	rcarver at stonehill.edu
Beth Chance	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo	bchance at calpoly.edu
Laura Chihara	Carleton College	lchihara at carleton.edu
Sandy Clarkson	Hunter College	sclarkso at hunter.cuny.edu
Rick Cleary	Bentley College	rcleary at bentley.edu
George Cobb	Mount Holyoke College	gcobb at mtholyoke.edu
Patti B. Collings	Brigham Young University	collingp at byu.edu
Linda Collins	University of Chicago	lcollins at uchicago.edu
Carolyn Cuff	Westminster College (PA)	ccuff at westminster.edu
Bob delMas	University of Minnesota	delma001 at umn.edu
Dick Deveaux	Williams College	rdeveaux at williams.edu
Jackie Dietz	Meredith College	dietzjac at meredith.edu
Carolyn Pillers Dobler	Gustavus Adolphus College	dobler at gac.edu
William Duckworth	Creighton University	wmd at creighton.edu
Marlin Eby	Messiah College	eby at messiah.edu
Peter Flanagan-Hyde	Phoenix Country Day School	peterfh at mac.com
Chris Franklin	University of Georgia	chris at stat.uga.edu
Marian Frazier	Ohio State University	frazier.149 at osu.edu
Leonard H. Gaines	SUNY-Empire State College	leonard.gaines at esc.edu
Joan Garfield	University of Minnesota	jbg at umn.edu
Robert Gould	UCLA	rgould at ucla.edu
Marvin Gruber	Rochester Institute of Technology	mjgsma at rit.edu
Nilupa Gunaratna	Purdue University	gunaratna at purdue.edu
Huizhen (Jean) Guo	Xavier University	guoh at xavier.edu
Jo Hardin	Pomona College	jo.hardin at pomona.edu
Bernard Harris	University of Wisconsin	bernard_harris at yahoo.com
Kyle Hewitt	Iowa State University	khewitt at iastate.edu
Bob Hogg	University of Iowa	bhogg at mccoy.mail.net
John Holcomb	Cleveland State University	j.p.holcomb at csuohio.edu
Bob Jernigan	American University	Jernigan at american.edu
Brian Jersky	Sonoma State University	brian.jersky at sonoma.edu
Joy Jordan	Lawrence University	joy.jordan at lawrence.edu
Kari Kastango	Bristol Myers Squibb	kari.kastango at bms.com
Karen Kinard	Tallahassee Community College	kinardk at tcc.fl.edu
Shonda Kuiper	Grinnell College	kuipers at grinnell.edu
Russ Lenth	University of Iowa	russell-length at uiowa.edu
Larry Lesser	University of Texas at El Paso	Lesser at utep.edu
Jeff Lidicker	Temple University	lidicker at temple.edu
Alex Lipka	Purdue University	alipka at statpurdue.edu
Robin Lock	St. Lawrence University	rlock at stlawu.edu
André M. Lubecke	Lander University	alubecke at lander.edu
Don Macnaughton	MatStat	donmac at matstat.com
Edd Mansfield	University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)	emansfie at cba.ua.edu
Karen McGaughey	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo/AMD	kmcgaugh at calpoly.edu
Monnie McGee	Southern Methodist University	mmcgee at smu.edu
Christine McLaren	Univ of Calif – Irvine	cmclaren at uci.edu
Weiwen Miao	Macalester College	miao at macalester.edu
Jackie Miller	Ohio State University	miller.203 at osu.edu
Tom Moore	Grinnell College	mooret at grinnell.edu
Jerry Moreno	John Carroll University	moreno at jcu.edu
June Morita	University of Washington	june at stat.washington.edu
Bill Notz	Ohio State University	win at stat.ohio-state.edu
Mary Parker	Austin Community College	parker at austincc.edu
Roxy Peck	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo	rpeck at calpoly.edu
Paul Roback	St. Olaf College	roback at stolaf.edu
Rosemary Roberts	Bowdoin College	rroberts at bowdoin.edu
Kim Robinson	Clayton State University	kimrobinson at clayton.edu
Allan Rossman	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo	arossman at calpoly.edu
Juana Sánchez	UCLA	jsanchez at stat.ucla.edu
Dick Scheaffer	University of Florida	rls907 at bellsouth.net
Milo Schield	Augsburg College	schield at augsburg.edu
Michael Schuckers	St. Lawrence University	schuckers at stlawu.edu
Norean Sharpe	Babson College	sharpen at babson.edu
Tom Short	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	tshort at iup.edu
Michelle Sisto	Int. University of Monaco	msisto at monaco.edu
Doug Sizemore	Covenant College	sizemore at covenant.edu
Tom Tosch	Boeing	tom at tosch.com
Jessica Utts	UC Davis	jmutts at ucdavis.edu
Paul Velleman	Cornell University	pfv2 at cornell.edu
John Walker	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo	jwalker at calpoly.edu
Steve Wang	Swarthmore College	scwang at swarthmore.edu
Joe Ward	Health Careers High School	joeward at alumni.utexas.net
Ron Wasserstein	Washburn University	ron.wasserstein at washburn.edu
Amy Watkins	Statcom at Purdue	awatkin at purdue.edu
Joan Weinstein	Pine Manor College/Harvard Extension School	weinstej at pmc.edu
Dex Whittinghill	Rowen University	whittinghill at rowan.edu
Jeff Witmer	Oberlin College	jeff.witmer at oberlin.edu
Andy Zieffler	University of Minnesota	zief600 at umn.edu

Introductions

Chris introduced the Section Officers.
Election Results

Chris announced the election results: Chair-Elect 2007 (chair in 2008): Linda Young; Secretary/Treasurer (2007-2009): Tom Short; Executive Committee (2007-2009): Deb Rumsey and Jo Hardin.
Reports
- Beth Chance, Secretary/Treasurer, asked for additional corrections to the minutes (some names were misspelled, see the corrected 2005 minutes on the web) and reported that the section’s revenues essentially matched the section’s expenditures, but that there is currently a surplus that could be spent down. She highlighted recent expenditures in support of graduate students attending the SRTL conference, Project NExT fellows, the section mentoring program, and the JSM meeting (roundtables, outside speakers, program chair, business meeting).
- It was reported that Sterling Hilton (publication officer) encouraged members to contact him for help in anything they want published, particularly for Amstat News and the section newsletter. The next newsletter will be published in the fall (contact Jackie Dietz and/or Joan Garfield).
- Paul Roback, 2006 program chair, thanked the organizers, chairs, and speakers who made his job very easy with their creativity and willingness to step forward. He indicated that we may need larger rooms for stat ed sessions in the future. The section also helped pilot the coffee roundtables at this year’s meeting.
- Patti Collings, 2007 program chair, indicated that she was looking forward to hearing from the section with ideas for topic contributed sessions (including topics alone if you don’t know which people to recruit).
- Carolyn Cuff, Council of Sections representative, announced that the ASA is soliciting nominations for the SPAIG award and reminded members of ASA’s agreement to give $10 to anyone recommending a new student member (student needs to list the recommending individual) along with the free section membership for one year (section needs to maintain 1000 members for second council of sections representative). She requested feedback on whether more prominence should be given to posters at the meeting, largely to aid scheduling (a straw vote seemed split evenly) and ideas for doing so. Suggestions included adding the posters to Expo Hall and keeping them up for a specified time (with the author only promising to be there for a smaller amount of time, ASA is already doing this for next year); attaching the posters to one of the evening receptions; giving a section award for the best poster; offering a free beer ticket to attendees; soliciting a set of advice guidelines on good posters from ASA (similar to current advice on good papers) with maybe even an introductory overview lecture on effective posters (possible speaker choice: Tufte). She also solicited feedback on the communities booth and the coffee roundtables.
- Jessica Utts announced that the 2008 Program Chair would be Jackie Miller. Jackie’s first task will be arranging the roundtables for Salt Lake City and she asked people to contact her with ideas (miller.203@osu.edu).
- In the Chair’s report, Chris expressed how much she enjoyed being chair this year. The number of requests she received to support SI proposals at the beginning of the year opened her eyes to how many great ideas are out there that involve statistics education, but that there also appears to be a communication issue in terms of the section being aware of what is occurring in different communities. She hopes to make this one of the main agenda items for the year, starting with using the newsletter and the ASA website to improve communications between committees and other sections. She also indicated that the section is trying to prioritize how we can spend some of our funds.
Section Awards

The new fellows (June Morita, Brad Hartlaub, Deb Rumsey, and Marcia Gumpertz), Founder’s Award recipients (Jackie Dietz, Joe Ward, and John Boyer), and Mu Sigma Rho Awardee (Chris Franklin) from the section were congratulated.
Best Contributed Paper Award

The 2005 Best Contributed Paper Award was presented by Ron Wasserstein to Bob Jernigan.
Waller Education Award

Robin Lock, on behalf of committee members Tom Moore, Mike Mosier, Jackie Dietz, Ginger Rowell, and Roger Woodard, presented the Waller Education Award (given to an exemplary teacher within their first ten years and an up and coming mover and shaker in the field) to Joy Jordan.
New Business
- Joy Jordan provided an update on the mentoring program with five new pairings to add to three from the previous year. She thanked mentors Katherine Halvorsen, Brad Hartlaub, John Holcomb, Rob Gould, Tom Moore, Michael Kahn, Jerry Moreno, and Ginger Rowell. She asked members to let her know if they would like to be on the mentor list or if they know of anyone in the section in their first five years, especially if they are isolated at their institution.
- Dick Scheaffer urged members to become aware of the National Numeracy Network (http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~nnn/) whose mission is quantitative reasoning/literacy across the curriculum and therefore involves lots of statistics and data. The website contains material collected from individuals with active programs in QL in recent years, many funded by NSF. The program is fledgling, with about 16 member institutions, but needs representation from the statistics community.
- John McKenzie, head of the Stat Ed Founders and Fellows committee, requested assistance in the nomination of qualified people associated with statistics education. Committee members include Joan Garfield and Bill Notz. They would like to get solicitations for potential candidates to coordinate nominations but will also help provide letters of support if someone is putting forth a nomination.
- Joe Ward announced that Steve Zayak passed away in February from an unexpected heart attack. Chris expressed how much Steve would be missed in the section.
- Allan Rossman revealed that Russ Lenth is the 2008 JSM program chair.
- George Cobb announced a couple of additional opportunities for involvement and influence: writing for Amstat News, a new website that will enable everyone to make nominations for committee membership, including self-nominations, and ASA’s recent commitment to take a more visible place in public life.
- Robin Lock agreed again to help with bulk delivery of Stat Geek buttons.
- Jackie Miller announced that USCOTS 2007 will again take place at Ohio State, May 17-19, 2007. See CauseWEB for more information and soon to be available registration forms. Spotlight sessions will include an idea exchange forum and members should contact Jackie, Larry Lesser or Doug Andrews.
- Jerry Moreno announced that the winning K-12 poster displays would be back next year and he distributed a handout showing this year's winners.
- Carol Blumberg, now with the federal government, was asked by her boss to announce that they had openings and were looking for younger individuals. She can be contacted for more information.
- Nilupa Gunaratna from Purdue thanked the section for support of their STATCOM program, which has been helping other universities develop volunteer consulting programs that are student driven.
- Chris Franklin passed on a plea from Brad Hartlaub for AP readers. The next reading will be June 3-9 in Louisville, KY, with over 100,000 exams anticipated. An online reader application can be found at http://www.ets.org/reader/ap.
- Chris announced that Rebecca Nichols is the new ASA K-16 Director. Rebecca has been involved in TA training at BYU. She will start in that position Sept. 1, 2006.
- Chris announced that the section was planning to have a separate, stand-alone booth next year.
- Chris thanked the retiring executive committee officers: Robin (past-chair), Marjorie Bond and Michael Kahn (members at large), Beth Chance (Secretary/Treasurer) and Paul Roback (2006 Stat Ed Program Chair), as well as the continuing contributions of Joan Garfield and Jackie Dietz (newsletter), Ron Wasserstein (contributed paper award) and Jackie Dietz (web page editor).

The meeting was adjourned at 6:58pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Beth Chance
Secretary/Treasurer

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