Notes from SIGMAA Stat Ed Executive Committee Meeting at JMM 2015

Present: Randall Pruim, Scott Alberts, Patti Frazer Lock, Sue Schou, Stacey Hancock, Judith Canner

Executive Committee Design and Responsibilities

· Need for each responsibilities to be specified – request that each position make a list of important dates

· Need to rethink the executive committee construction

o Combine Treasurer and Awards Chair?

o Combine Treasurer with other positions?

o Chair to serve two years, with Past Chair for 1 year and Chair-Elect for 1 year (4 years total)

Agenda for Business Meeting:

· Awards – Dex and Hogg

· Incoming and Outgoing (a few words on elections)

· Minutes from last year

· Executive Committee Structure and Elections

· USCOTS, JSM, MathFest,

· PRIMUS Call for Papers

· Door Prizes

Session Hosting:

· Sunday Afternoon: Scott, Randy with Stacey, Judith helping

· Monday Morning: Scott with Stacey, Judith Helping

· Monday Afternoon: Randy, Scott with Judith Stacey Helping

PRIMUS

· Matthew Boelkins (Editor of PRIMUS) to do a special issue on our sessions

Proposed Sessions for JMM 2016 (DUE JAN 31)

· Request ideas at Business Meeting

· Panel: Adapting to the changes for Stat in Math Dept (DUE APRIL 15)

Names for Future Elections

· Soma Roy

· Iwan Praton

· Catherine Case

· Carolyn Cuff (maybe)

· Milo Sheild

· Nathan Tintle

· Shonda Kuiper

MAA SIGMAA Officers Meeting

Led by Roger Waggoner

Draft Charter – standardization of executive committee across the SIGMAAs

· Chair

· Chair-Elect

· Past-Chair

· Program Coordinator

· Secretary/Treasurer

· Newsletter/Webpage

· Ex-Officio for special projects

· Elections may not have to be every year

New Financial Deal – each SIGMAA gets a specific amount each year based on ?

Copyrights? MAA will own copyright of SIGMAA produced materials

Reviews of SIGMAAs – 3 a year over 4 years (behind, only 2 complete, should be 6)

· Includes Member Survey, Officer Survey

· Required Items in Review – unknown at this point, will hopefully send out that list

MathFest SIGMAA Fair may happen for Centennial Celebration

Encouraging SIGMAA Activities at Section Meetings to happen more often

Minutes from SIGMAA Stat Ed Business Meeting at JMM 2015

Start 6:05

PRIMUS Proposal - Randy

· Randy introduced Matthew Boelkins (PRIMUS Editor) who is considering a special edition of PRIMUS on Statistic Education

· Matt introduced special theme for PRIMUS based on the presentations here at JMM

o Need: Authors, Guest Editors, and Referees if they do a special issue

o Process: Proposal Form and Materials available for the special issue

· Even if it does not happen PRIMUS would welcome papers regardless since they reach mathematicians who often teach at non-stat schools or mathematicians teaching statistics

· Randy asked about the timeline, Matt responded

o Step 1: 1, 2, or 3 people who are willing to serve as guest editors (need to have done extensive refereeing and/or a lot of writing) – a total of 60-80 hours over 12-18 months

o Step 2: Call for Papers (perhaps June 1) and then a year before publication

o Step 3: During that time there is a need for referees for the papers

Approval of the Minutes – Randy

· There was a motion to approve the JMM 2014 Business Minutes. After a motion by Nick Horton all members voted “yes”.

Welcome and Farewell to Executive Committee – Randy

· Farewell to Scott Alberts as Past Chair, but he will be serving as an ex officio member to consider make-up of executive committee, such as positions and awards chairman

· Welcome to Sue Schou as Chair-Elect

· Pattie Frazer Lock will now be Chair

· Randall Pruim will now be Past Chair

· Judith Canner re-elected as Secretary

· There was a call for new executive committee members

Announcements

· MathFest August 2015 in Washington DC

o 100 Year Anniversary, Classic Minicourses such as the Lock 5 course have been invited to participate

· USCOTS – Late May at Penn State

o Poster submissions due Feb 1^st for USCOTS

· JMM 2015

o Request was made for new proposals for sessions next year – what topics?

§ Innovative ways to teach Mathematical Statistics

§ Technology in the Classroom for Statistics

§ New version of GAISE for K-12/Undergrad (Panel?)

· JSM 2015

o Feb 2 is deadline for abstract submissions for JSM, specifically for round tables

Other Annoncements

· Shonda Kuiper - ASA-MAA Joint Committee on Stat Education wants to develop a resource for Department Chairs on what qualifications are needed to teach intro stat courses.

· Common Visions for first two years of collegiate math – panel on Tuesday at 1pm and workshop in May with reps from MAA, SIAM, AMS, broad discussion open now and all welcome to join

Awards - Randy

· Dex Whittinghill III for Best Contributed Paper 2014 – Shonda Kuiper for her talk on Games with a Purpose

· Robert V Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Statistics – Nicholas Horton

Door Prizes – Scott/Judith/Randy

End 6:35

Guest Speaker – Reactive Documents for Teaching by Hadley Wickham

Attendance (Total 46 Names + ~6 more who did not sign in)

Name	Affiliation	E-mail	Are you in the SIGMAA Stat-Ed?
Randy Pruim	Calvin College	rpruim@calvin.edu	Y
Scott Alberts	Truman State University	salberts@truman.edu	Y
Judith Canner	California State University, Mon	jcanner@csumb.edu	Y
Stacey Hancock	University of California, Irvine	stacey.hancock@uci.edu	Y
Michael Miner	American Public Univ. System	jcmhs77@aol.com	Y
Adam Molnar	University of Georgia	molnar@uga.edu	?N?
Benjamin V.C. Collin	University of Wisconsin-Plattevi	collinbe@uwplatt.edu	Y
Nicholas Horton	Amherst College	nhorton@amherst.edu	Y
Iwan Praton	Franklin & Marshall College	iwan.praton@fandm.edu	Y
Pat Humphrey	Georgia Southern University	phumphre@georgiasouth	Y
John Bailer	Miami University	baileraj@miamioh.edu	Y
Nancy Boynton	SUNY Fredonia	boynton@fredonia.edu	Y
Shonda Kuiper	Grinnell College	kuipers@grinnell.edu	d
Justin Grieves	Charleston Southern Univ	jgrieves@csuniv.edu	Y?
Dominic Klyve	Central Washington U	klyved@cwu.edu	Y?
Catherine Case	University of Florida	ccase@ufl.edu	N
Paul Plummer	University of Central Missouri	pplummer@ucmo.edu	N
Chester Ismay	Ripon College	ismayc@ripon.edu	N
mienie de Kock	Texas A&M Univ-Central Texas		N
Sergio Loch	Grand View University	sloch@grandview.edu	Y
John Weber	Georgia Perimeter College	John.Weber@gpc.edu	Y
Carolyn Cuff	Westminster College	ccuff@westminster.edu	Y
Megan Olson Hunt	University of Wisconsin-Green	olsonhum@uwgb.edu	N
Robin Lock	St. Lawrence University	rlock@stlawu.edu	Y
Patti Frazer Lock	St. Lawrence University	plock@stlawu.edu	Y
Eric Ruggieri	College of the Holy Cross	eruggier@holycross.edu	Y
Brian Powers	University of Illinois at Chicago	bpower6@uic.edu	N
Murray Siegel	Arizona State U	murray.siegel@asu.edu	Y
Carolyn Hamilton	Utah Valley University	Carolyn.Hamilton@uvu.e	N
Rod Sturdivant	The Ohio State University	Sturdivant.11@osu.edu	Y
Greg Call	Amherst College	gscall@amherst.edu	N
Dan Velleman	Amherst College	djvelleman@amherst.edu	N
David Cox	Amherst College	dacox@amherst.edu	N
Dianna Spence	University of North Georgia	djspence@ung.edu	Y
Rachel Chaphalkar	University of Wisconsin Whitew	chaphalr@uww.edu	Y
Susan Holmes	Stanford	susan@stat.stanford.edu	N
Jenny Langdon	Wayne State College	jelangd1@wsc.edu	?
Mary Parker	Austin Community College	mparker@austincc.edu	Y
Hunter Ellinger		mparker@austincc.edu	N
Diana Gillooly	Cambridge University Press	dgillooly@cambridge.org	N
Leon Kaganovskiy	Touro College	leonkag@gmail.com	N
Robin Lovgren	Belmont University	robin.lovgren@belmont.	N
Sue Schou	Idaho State University	schosue@isu.edu	Y
Kim Roth	Juniata College	roth@juniata.edu
Hasan Hamdan	James Madison University	hamdanhx@jmu.edu	Y
uma ravat[1]	University of Illinois at Urbana-C	ravat1@illinois.edu	N