Board Highlights
Policy, Planning, Strategic Plans
Top Board’s Agenda
P
olicy matters, planning, and implementation — As President-elect, Sally Morton established
of strategic plans were among the important three work groups, each related to one of the planks
activities of the Board of Directors during its of the ASA’s Strategic Plan. These groups reported
April 3–4, 2009, meeting. Here are the highlights: to the board:
• The 2009 Strategic Plan Work Group on
— The board appointed a host of new editors to Meetings, chaired by ASA Vice President
assume duties beginning in 2010:
• Joe Verducci, editor of Statistical Analysis and
Data Mining
Board of Directors
• John Gabrosek, editor of the Journal of Statistics
Education
sally Morton, President
• Richard Levine, editor of the Journal of sastry Pantula, President-elect
Computational and Graphical Statistics
Tony Lachenbruch, Past President
• Hal Stern, editor of the Journal of the American
Statistical Association, Applications and Case Alicia Carriquiry, Vice President (third-year)
studies
Nat schenker, Vice President (second-year)
• Jonathan Wright and Keisuke Hirano, editors
of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics Christy Chuang-stein, Vice President
(first-year)
• Joe Heyse’ appointment as editor of Statistics in
Biopharmaceutical Research was extended for one
Geert Verbeke, International Representative
year, through 2010
Karen Kafadar, Publications Representative
— The board endorsed the principles and best prac-
tices set forth in Principles and Practices for a Federal
John Boyer, Council of Chapters
Statistical Agency, 4th ed. (see Page 14)
Representative (third-year)
susan Hilsenbeck, Council of Chapters
— The board endorsed recommendations from a
Representative (second-year)
panel of faculty regarding graduate programs in sta-
tistics education. (see Page 59)
David Marker, Council of Chapters
Representative (first-year)
— Steve Pierson, ASA director of science policy, led
a discussion with the board about planned activities Tom santner, Council of sections
for the JSM congressional visits, an opportunity for Representative (third-year)
members to meet with congressional staff to discuss
specific issues (to be determined later this spring).
David Banks, Council of sections
Details can be found at
www.amstat.org/meetings/
Representative (second-year)
jsm/2009/index.cfm?fuseaction=capitolhill.
Jeri Mulrow, Council of sections
Representative (first-year)
— The board endorsed the recommendation
of the Membership Recruitment and Retention
Keith Ord, Treasurer
Committee to set the price for annual dues at $50
for all K–12 teachers.
Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director
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