Community data refers to the
impact of the department, its fac-
ulty, and its students beyond the
null
When a department is threatened with
university. Do faculty members
elimination, local data is important. But,
consult with local business and
we also need data at a national level.
industry? Is the consulting lab
open to (and used by) the larger
null
community? Have your gradu-
ate students organized something
like Purdue’s Statcom to provide national data can provide the jus- There are multiple places
statistical consulting for local tification. Is the number of fac- that collect portions of the data
government and nonprofit orga- ulty sufficient for the size of the mentioned above. The ASA col-
nizations? Do your graduates go university? Do you offer enough lects salary data and, for the last
to work for local companies? course options for your students? two years, has collected other
when a department is threat- National data is also important department information (such
ened with elimination, local for statistics groups that need to as number of faculty, students,
data is important. But, we also justify becoming a department and degrees awarded) from PhD-
need data at a national level. For and for departments that cur- granting statistics and biostatis-
departments that want to expand rently exist to get resources from tics departments. The American
(or avoid getting downsized), their deans. Mathematical Society has been
surveying departments for many
years, and for at least the last
10 years, it has been separating
information from statistics and
biostatistics departments. And
the Conference Board of the
Mathematical Sciences conducts
a survey on undergraduate pro-
grams every five years (with the
next one scheduled for 2010).
The response rates to these sur-
veys from statistics and biostatis-
tics departments needs improve-
ment. Although responding to
the many requests for data is time
consuming (and, admittedly,
some of the requests are for the
same information), the impor-
tance of the data in maintaining
and expanding our disciplinary
departments is immense. If you
receive a request for data from the
AMS, ASA, or CBMS, remember
how important it is and submit
your completed questionnaire in
a timely manner.
To contact me, send an email
to
keith@amstat.org. Questions
or comments about this article,
as well as suggestions for future
articles, are always welcome. n
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