Nat Schenker, presented its report to the board. — Speaking of strategic planning, Sastry Pantula,
The work group recommended forming a plan- ASA president-elect, led the board in a preliminary
ning committee to initiate a conference on
discussion of initiatives for 2010, based on the
applied statistics in 2011 or 2012. A planning
ASA’s Strategic Plan. Pantula indicated his intention
committee is being formed, and its first meeting
to focus on four of the planks of the plan during
will be held at JSM.
2010: membership growth, visibility and impact in
decisionmaking, public awareness, and education.
• The other two strategic plan work groups,
Planning for 2010 will continue through the spring
Organizational Efficiency (chaired by Bob
and early summer.
Rodriguez) and Reserves and Spending Policy
(chaired by Keith Ord), presented progress
— Karen Kafadar, publications representative, led
reports. Both are scheduled to make final reports
a lively discussion about the future of electronic
later this spring and summer.
publications at the ASA. The discussion focused
on a set of recommendations to the board from the
Committee on Publications. The board agreed that
(1) publications should move to electronic as the pri-
mary medium, with paper secondary; (2) the ASA’s
publications should aspire to be influential and the
Extra! Extra!
ASA should work to expand electronic access while
maintaining the financial viability of its publishing
program; and (3) the ASA should investigate the
creation of a statistics portal. A work group, chaired
T
hose words—once shout-
by Committee on Publications Chair David Scott,
ed by people hawking
has been assembled to take further steps and bring a
newspapers on street cor-
proposal to the board in August.
ners everywhere—have largely
gone the way of the dodo. But
— Keith Ord, ASA treasurer, reviewed the ASA’s
you can receive the present-day
financial summary for 2008. The board also received
equivalent in your email for every
the 2008 audited financial report.
journal the ASA publishes.
simply go to http://pubs.
— The board reviewed 10 proposals for funding
amstat.org, click on the journal
from the Member Initiatives Program and fund-
you’re interested in, and then
ed three of them: Census@School in the USA,
click on “Sign up for TOC
Statisticians Influence Climate Change Deliberations
Alerts.” With that, the table of
on Capitol Hill: A Case Study, and Increasing the
contents of every issue will land
Value of the First Course in Statistics.
in your in-box with links to the
issue and each article. Even if
— The Council of Sections Governing Board and
you don’t subscribe to a particu-
the Council of Chapters Governing Board each
lar journal, go ahead and get the
reported on their activities since December 2008.
TOC Alert so you’ll know what’s
Both councils met in Alexandria at the ASA office
going on in the most important
in February.
statistical journals in the world.
Get ahead of the curve. Get
— The board approved launching an annual fund
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