Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia (1990) / Chapter Skim
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2 Curricular Issues
2 Curricular Issues
Pages 13-24
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Reed, Duke University TNTERDISCIPEINARY STATISTICAL SCIENCES Ingram Olkin, Stanford University 13
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There are six distinct and often competing instructional missions for most mathematical sciences departments. Each of these yields unique curricular challenges for us.
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The transition from secondary to post-secondary mathematics instruction will continue to be a major issue facing our mathematics departments in all but the highly selective institutions. These issues become most urgent as we seek to bring more underrepresented groups into science and engineering fields.
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Salary differentials for a given year are typically small and only partially under control of the chairman, and promotion and tenure decisions will simply not be made on the basis of such "other" activities. That leaves differential teaching loads as the only effective carrot and stick that a chairman can use to encourage and reward faculty effort.
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It simply takes a tremendous amount of work for a typical mathematician to find some juicy examples from these new areas, so it's just simpler to use the old stuff from the seventeenth century. Here is a perfect example of how a chairman could use faculty resources creatively.
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While theoretical developments and the application of statistical methods have proceeded rapidly over the course of this century, it is only recently that the advent of inexpensive and powerful computational resources has opened the way for major advances in the statistical study of complex models. At die same time, greatly expanded data collection and processing capabilities have created opportunities and challenges for analysis with large, multidimensional data sets.
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The IMS formed a panel to carry out the project whose members were Alfred Blumstein, Amos Eddy, William Eddy, Peter Jurs, William Kruskal, Thomas Kurtz, Gary McDonald, Ingram Olkin (cochair) , Ronald Peierls, Jerome Sacks (cochair)
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The panel has sought in its recommendations to take account of the perceptions of the community at large in identifying targets of opportunity and suggesting approaches to buttress and extend the support for crossdisciplinary research in all environments in which statisticians work. Finally, in order to provide a necessary long-range view and to establish a structure for maintaining the health of the field and its cross-disciplinary character, the panel recommends the establishment of an Institute for Statistical Sciences.
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PARTICIPANT: I would like to point out that the freshman experience is where, perhaps, we do not do our best job. Reassigning people who have not been strong in research to this extra teaching load may not be in the best interest of undergraduate students.
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Reed discussed in the response concerning shifting personnel are extremely important. This is one place where the mathematical sciences community fails.
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