Through informal methods, key people business, and public policy. Accreditation In summary, it is important for the ASA
within the statistical societies could identify programs alone do not increase our visibil- and its members to look beyond individual
various reasons why employers may not rec- ity in the workplace. accreditation as just a process and begin to
ognize credentials and why members do not The ASA needs an outreach program look at individual accreditation as a program
apply for accreditation. Employers may lack that broadly and thoroughly conveys the that could potentially contain mentorship,
information about accreditation programs or value statisticians bring to organizations professional development, ambassadorial,
the difference between hiring accredited and and actively involves ASA member par- and evaluation components. ASA members
unaccredited statisticians. Meanwhile, some ticipation, as they have an interest in the need to critically assess if such a program
members may believe their academic train- promotion of the profession. We propose will restore our professional recognition and
ing or work experience is adequate evidence creating an ASA Ambassadors Section, translate into tangible benefits. ■
of their skill. Some members already may be where members promote the profession
successful without being accredited. of statistics. An ambassadors section could
If the ASA developed an accreditation operate as other ASA sections operate, hav-
program, it would need to expand a cur- ing a charter or governing document with
We would like to apologize to the
rent model to include a statistical evalua- a mission statement, volunteer officers,
faculty and staff in the Department of
tion component. A statistical evaluation is etc. The section could be open to all ASA
Statistics at Texas A&M University for
needed to assess the factors that influence members for a typical section fee and free an error in publishing in the April issue
employer recognition of credentials, apply- and automatic for those who are accred- of Amstat News. It is not customary
ing for accreditation, and the overall effec- ited through the ASA. Educating mem- for our magazine to publish an
tiveness of the accreditation program. bers about the benefits of accreditation,
advertisement for an organization,
Furthermore, if the ASA developed an using public awareness programs to edu-
university, or other affiliate on the
accreditation program, it would need to cate organizations that hire statisticians,
same page as a news story on the
expand a current program model to include and having members be the ambassadors
same subject about a competitor.
a stronger, ongoing, multifaceted outreach for their profession might help increase
In the future, we will take special
component, as accreditation programs employer recognition of the accreditation
measures to ensure that this type of
do not fully convey to the employer credentials and the number of applications
oversight does not happen again.
the value statisticians bring to research, for accreditation.
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