SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Meetings 2015

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
      • Combine Treasurer and Awards Chair?
      • Combine Treasurer with other positions?
      • 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 End 6:35

  • 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
      • Need: Authors, Guest Editors, and Referees if they do a special issue
      • 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
      • 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
      • Step 2: Call for Papers (perhaps June 1) and then a year before publication
      • 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
      • 100 Year Anniversary, Classic Minicourses such as the Lock 5 course have been invited to participate
    • USCOTS – Late May at Penn State
      • Poster submissions due Feb 1st for USCOTS
    • JMM 2015
      • 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
      • 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

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 University of Illinois at Urbana-C ravat1@illinois.edu N