Old Business: Elections Treasurer and Secretary Terms Member Services
New
Business: Miscellaneous
Announcements Liaisons Outreach
Those in Attendance
Forty-one people attended the meeting. Their
names, school affiliations and email addresses are at the end of the minutes.
Reception
The meeting began with a
reception.
Welcome/Chair’s Report
Dex Whittinghill, chair,
welcomed everyone and opened the meeting with a brief history of the formation
of the SIGMAA on Statistics Education from the first Isolated Teachers of
Statistics Meeting (ITSM) in 1998 to the approval of the SIGMAA on Statistics
Education by the MAA (May 2000).
Treasurer’s Report
Dex Whittinghill, chair,
gave the treasurer’s report in KLD Gunawardena’s absence. Dex reported that as
of the middle of December, there were 170 paid members. The dues are $10 a year,
and it was noted that if an MAA member had paid their MAA dues for two years
they probably did not receive a notice to join a SIGMAA.
Old Business
A. Elections
Dex Whittinghill deferred to the
elected past-chair, Allan Rossman, who presented the following motion that was
distributed via email to members and potential members of the SIGMAA on
Statistics Education before the New Orleans meetings.
Bob Hogg seconded the motion and moved that we passed the motion unanimously. There was no discussion and the motion passed.
Pat Humphrey seconded the motion. There was no discussion and the motion passed.
Francisco Alarco'n will serve in the role of developing the web page for this SIGMAA, though the official title and responsibilities are yet to be determined. His email address is falarcon@grove.iup.edu
Suggestions for electronic services and other services that the Statistics Education SIGMAA can provide are listed below. They are organized (roughly) for your convenience.
E-mail Services (?)
New Business
A.
Miscellaneous Announcements
Dex Whittinghill asked for the members to
let him know by email what the regular business for the meeting would be. He
said this has worked well in the past.
Dex read from the charter items that are related to Outreach and Liaisons. Below are the members' suggestions for groups to which the Statistics Education SIGMAA can be a liaison and provide outreach.
Mary Parker gave the following web address for the new curriculum recommendations for offering a statistics major, minor, and/or concentration. The document is called the Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiative (USEI) for promoting undergraduate statistics to improve the workforce of the future: www.amstat.org/education/usei.html
John McKenzie (Babson College) encouraged everyone to read two reports, and he emphasized the importance of people in this group providing feedback. The first report is the Committee for Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM)'s "Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences in 2010: What Should Students Know?" (www.maa.org/news/cupm_text.pdf) and the second report is the CRAFTY project. John indicated that Tom Moore (Mooret@grinnell.edu) is the contact.
Dex Whittinghill closed the meeting by encouraging those who could to meet for dinner.
| First Name | Last Name | School |
| Allan | Rossman | Dickinson College |
| Beth | Chance | California Polytechnic - San Luis Obispo |
| Bruce | Lind | University of Puget Sound |
| Matt | Pickard | University of Puget Sound |
| Barbara B. | Ward | Belmont University |
| Ginger Holmes | Rowell | Middle Tennessee State University |
| Pat | Humphrey | Georgia Southern University |
| Jane | Brandsma | Greensboro College |
| Dick | Scheaffer | University of Florida |
| Larry | Knop | Hamilton College |
| Roxy | Peck | California Polytechnic - San Luis Obispo |
| Joan | Garfield | University of Minnesota |
| Alex | Kugushev | Cyber Gnostics, Inc. |
| Paul | Pasles | Villanova University |
| Don | Bentley | Pomona College |
| Steve | Blasberg | West Valley College |
| John | McKenzie | Babson College |
| John | Arko | Glenbrook South High School |
| Brad | Hartlaub | Kenyon College |
| Carolyn | Cuff | Westminster College |
| Toni | Carroll | Siena Heights University |
| Bette | Warren | Eastern Michigan University |
| Melinda | Holt | Texas Woman's university |
| Bob | del Mas | University of Minnesota |
| Mary | Parker | Austin Community College |
| Hunter | Ellinger | University of Texas at Austin |
| Chris | Oehrlein | Oklahoma City Community College |
| Brian | Smith | McGill University |
| Brian | Gill | Seattle Pacific University |
| Dennis | Kern | SRSU-Rio Grande College |
| Bob | Hollister | Jacksonville University |
| Adele M. | Rothon | College of St. Catherine |
| Steve | Rummel | Heartland Community College |
| Jim | Albert | Bowling Green State University |
| Gilbert | Sward | Montgomery College |
| Bob | Hogg | University of Iowa |
| Francisco | Alarcón | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| Cathy | Carter | Christian Brothers University |
| Mary M. | Sullivan | Rhode Island College |
| Ann | Watkins | California State Northridge |
| Dexter | Whittinghill | Rowan College |