Submitted December 24, 1998. J. Voelkel.
Regrets
11:00 - 11:05 Check in -- Veronica
11:05 - 11:20 Review of Action Items -- Joe
11:20 - 12:45 Updates from committee chairs (approx. 5 minutes each)
Tactical Planning Meeting - Tom
Secretary - Joe
Membership - Ron
Operating Manual - Lynne
JSM Program 98 - Eric
JSM Program 99 - Dan
Continuing Education = ??
QP Research Conference - Jeff
Publications - Susannah/Mary
Newsletter - Lisa
Assoc. Newsletter/Mini paper - Esteban
Webmaster - Ramon
Council of Sections - Geoff/Lonnie
Committee to Nominate Fellows - Carolyn
Nominations committee - Tom
Treasury - Susan
12:45 - 12.55 Other business - Veronica
12:55 - 1:00 Next conference call - Veronica
Previous action items, still incomplete, with comments
112. T. Boardman (had been C. Morgan, up to 12/98). Need champion for interactions with other organizations. Try Stu Hunter first., then AmStat News.
* no updated info on this.
** (6/97) (by E-mail after the call) C. has just gotten information on contacting Stu. She will try to reach him soon.
*** (8/97) Terry Ziemer (Minitab) and Stefan Steiner (U. Waterloo) have volunteered. CM will still contact Stu.
**** (10/97 CM) no response from Stu. Still working with TZ and SS.
***** (2/98 CM) Still no response from Stu. SS looking for connection with INFORMS. However, he doesn't think he'll be attending these meetings. T. Boardman will see Stu in March and discuss with Stu. In the meantime, C. Morgan will prepare an article on this for AmStat News.
****** (10/98) T. Boardman tried, but was unable, to reach Stu via e-mail. He will try to phone him again
******* (12/98) CM sent the following e-mail message, on 11/5/98 You should have received the recent email from Tom Boardman about his "chat" with Stu Hunter on the issue of interactions with other organizations. Stu is unable to do this. This is still an ongoing challenge which I think Tom may be the new leader.
******* (12/98) Tom B. will take over this responsibility.
129. R. Hoerl. Include in Chair's responsibility to send out list of Q&P meetings and events at JSM
*(10/97 RH). OK. He will do.
** (2/98 RH). Still pending.
133.E. Walker. Take up publishing Snee's article (replaces item #63). Possibilities include a shortened article in newsletter or a detailed abstract there, with pointer to the Web. May be easiest for E. W. to edit, then send to Snee for approval.
** (12/98) JV met with two Stat Div officers at the FTC. They were unable to come up with a liaison. JV will contact new Stat Div chair (JOV: e-mail sent to Don Williams on 12/22)
149. AllÆTom Boardman. Submit the names of worthy candidates for the 1999 Fellows nominations to Joe Skwish (pqmjns@pccvax.dnet.dupont.com)
** (12/98) Tom B. will contact Joe S.
149a. (G. Vining) Plan to
** (12/98) Geoff sent an e-mail today. See Appendix C. Wants to reconvene meeting at QPRC in NY on May 18 (QPRC is May 19-21, 1999). TB will send note to confirm this. Also, see item 150.
152. (T. Boardman, handed off from E. Lagergren and L. Vance) Are E-mail lists available for members?
* 12/98. Eric sent a report in by e-mail. See Appendix B. (JOV: These recommendations should be reviewed and addressed by the incoming Chair, T. Boardman.)
* 12/98 Also, Lisa is asking members whether they would just like this on line.
* 12/98 VC. This should have been done (Q&P Research Conference abstracts to the Section Proceedings). Doesn't know about HP additions.
156. (E. Walker) "Reader's Digest" material
* 12/98 EW asked for clarification on this. Should we get involved in this. Also (VC), it may be better to look at the sampling book put out by the sampling section of ASA. EW also likes the Seen Elsewhere idea.
New action items
161. (T. Boardman). Send note to confirm May 18 date for next go at Review
of Vision and Strategic Plan. See item 149a.
| Item | Description | Responsibility |
1 |
Recently Completed Action Items |
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Only completed action items are listed here. On-going and new items are listed above. 142. All. If your job has a job description in the Q&P Operating Manual (on the Web page): Send changes in your job description to Lynne. If no changes are needed, send him a "no update needed" message. Due by October 1. * (10/98) L. Moore. Senior Newsletter Editor - not in OM. Lisa has a job description from SPES, but they do not yet have an OM. She will send on to SPES. * (10/98) L. Hare. VC, CM, JV, RH, Wlet, EricL, Rfri, Ramon, Sdev, Lhare, Tboard. Others-please do ASAP (JV-send note) * (12/98) OK 147. L. Vance. Send J. Voelkel a summary, by e-mail if possible, about the CoS meetings at the JSM. ** (12/98) Done. Lonnie sent the summary yesterday. See Appendix A. 150.(S. Devlin and V. Czitrom) Characterize Q&P members by jobs, degrees, geography. * (10/98) VC sent SD list of all Q&P members (paper list). * (10/98, submitted by Susan after the conf. call). ASA told me that they can not do any membership breakdowns for Q&P. I did not get the paper list of members from Veronica until 10/10. (The package looked like it had been around the world a few times.) I am tabulating by hand sex, geographic area and whether employer is academic institution, business, government, etc. I am about 3/4 through my tally. I should be able to send a report in about 1 week. ** 12/98 Susan did this. See Appendix D. We should review this. SD wanted to compare this to the ASA main body but this info is not available. More academics than she thought. Women about the same as ASA. We can use this at next meeting (item 149a). 158. All. Any articles for AmStat News? The due date for December is Nov 1. Let Susannah know by October 20. * 12/98 OK 159. Veronica. Do the Chair's report for January, by the end of November, and send to Susannah. * 12/98 done 160. All. Lisa Moore needs material by Oct 25 for the December issue of the newsletter. * 12/98 OK | ||
| Item | Description | Responsibility |
2 |
Updates, Committee Chairs |
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Tactical Planning Meeting - TomNothing additional to report Secretary - JoeNothing additional to report Membership - RonSent regrets. Nothing to report Operating Manual - LynneSent regrets. Nothing to report JSM Program 98 - EricNothing to report JSM Program 99 - DanBy e-mail, Dan said there are no new issues for the 99JSM other than people can now submit contributed papers and poster sessions to the ASA web at: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/1999/ Continuing Education = ??QP Research Conference - JeffNo information received. Publications - Susannah/MaryNothing else to report. Newsletter - LisaNothing else to report. Assoc. Newsletter/Mini paper - EstebanNothing else to report. Webmaster - RamonNothing else to report. Council of Sections - Geoff/LonnieNothing else to report. Committee to Nominate Fellows - CarolynCarolyn has asked Joe Skwish to take over this responsibility. Nominations committee - TomNothing else to report. Treasury - SusanNothing else to report. | ||
| Item | Description | Responsibility |
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Other Business |
V. Czitrom |
| None | ||
| Item | Description | Responsibility |
4 |
Next Conference Call |
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| The next conference call will be held some time in March, perhaps March 17 or 19. The new Chair, Tom Boardman, and/or new Secretary, Lisa Custer, will send out this information later. | ||
Council of Sections (COS) Annual Meeting Agenda
Sunday, August 9, 1998
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m. Welcome and Introductions (Council Chair Linda Young)
1:35 p.m. Approval of August 1997 Business Meeting Minutes (Mary Christman)
1:40 p.m. Advisory Committee on Continuing Education (ACCE) Awards (Mary
Fleming)
1:45 p.m. Remarks by President David Moore
1:55 p.m. Strategic Planning Committee (Jonas Ellenberg)
2:10 p.m. ASA Constitution Committee (John McKenzie)
2:20 p.m. COS Constitution Committee (George Williams)
2:30 p.m. Discussion of ASA Board of Directors Activities (Richard Gunst)
2:45 p.m. Update of ASA Website (Bruce Trumbo)
2:55 p.m. Discussion of Issues Concerning Section Budgets and Fiscal
Planning (Melinda McCann/Steve Porzio)
3:15 p.m. Poster and Project Competition (Linda Quinn)
3:25 p.m. Discussion of Recent Success Stories and Other Issues from
Section Activities
3:55 p.m. Announcement regarding Section Response and Action and Follow
Up Meetings on Thursday
*Order of topics may change depending upon presenter schedules
Notes by Lonnie Vance
Mary Fleming
Outreach (Statistical Thinking, etc.) headed up by Lynn Hare. Sections
sometimes generate their own revenue. Share expenses.
David Moore
Would like to see strengthening of the following:
Jonas Ellenberg
Strategic Plans
16 examples of actions identified as high priority: Seven were Structural
and Nine were Outreach. Each of these examples was covered in some detail.
Linda Young
There is some money available to help with section plans.
John McKenzie
Jan. 1, 1999 Constitution
- Committees
- Nominations
- Other Changes
George Williams
COS Constitution
Changes to several Articles were noted.
Sharon Anderson
ASA BOD Activities
Increase in JASA from $32 to $34. STATS remains the same. Schedule Joint
Statistical Meetings 7 years ahead instead of the current 5 years ahead.
1999 ASA budget approved by the BOD. September 30 is the deadline for budgeting
plan needs by the Sections.
Steve Porzio
What do the Sections want to see concerning Sections:
Linda Quinn
Poster and Project Competition
Statistical Consulting Section gave $1500. Eight sections provided some
money.
Miscellaneous
(Sent by e-mail from Eric)
ASA is in the process of putting such lists together for each section.
I contacted Nancy Hiett, Chapter & Section Project Leader at ASA, in
early September. At that time she said it would take several months to put
the lists together. I recently contacted her to check on the status, but
have not heard back yet.
I would recommend using such a list, but we must be selective. Most of
us receive too much "junk" email as it is. I would suggest that
one person be responsible for sending email to section members. The emails
should be short and targeted, e.g. a one or two-line teaser about an upcoming
conference with a URL to our web page for more detailed information. I would
suggest no more than one email a month, and of course an option to unsubscribe
at the bottom.
I spoke with a colleague who is a member of the Bayesian section and
he said their list originated from a conference list.
I would recommend just sending our Q&P brochure to new members rather than an email.
Action item is
Plan to
As promised, here is my update on my Tactical Planning responsibility.
I am responsible to lead the work on our Vision and our strategic plan
for customers. I have found that we are most productive discussing these
kinds of issues when we have a critical mass of people who can meet face-to-face.
In that spirit, I propose that all people interested in working on these
issues plan to meet on May 18 in Schenectady, the day prior to the 1999
Q&P Research Meeting. I would appreciate it if one of the organizers
can get us a meeting room at the headquarters hotel. Like last year, we
should provide a way for those who cannot physically attend to participate
by teleconference.
I envision two sessions for this meeting. The first one, starting in the morning, would have those physically present to start the process and to develop something for all people to react to in the afternoon. The afternoon session will be the conference call. This format seemed
to work well last year.
Of course, the success of this meeting depends heavily upon the number
of people who can physically attend. Crucial people to attend are: Tom,
as Chair, Veronica, as Past-Chair, and me, as Chair-Elect. Clearly, the
more people we have, the better the chances we will develop something of
real value to the Section.
Please let me know your reactions to this proposal. I hope to make the
tail end of the call. If not, please email your suggestions to me.
Q&P Section Membership Make-Up, Based on 1998 Address Lists
| Sex | Excluding Unknowns | |||
| Male | 747 | 68.3% | 78.7% | |
| Female | 200 | 18.3% | 21.1% | |
| Instit. | 2 | 0.2% | 0.2% | |
| Unknown | 145 | 13.3% | ||
| TOTAL | 1094 | 100.0% | ||
| KNOWN TOTAL | 949 | 100.0% | ||
| Employer | ||||
| Business | 402 | 36.7% | 53.1% | |
| Academic Institution | 312 | 28.5% | 41.2% | |
| Government | 36 | 3.3% | 4.8% | |
| Organization | 7 | 0.6% | 0.9% | |
| Unknown | 337 | 30.8% | ||
| TOTAL | 1094 | 100.0% | ||
| KNOWN TOTAL | 757 | 100.0% | ||
| State/Continent | ||||
| NorthEast US | 249 | 22.8% | ||
| NJ | 63 | 5.8% | ||
| PA | 58 | 5.3% | ||
| NY | 52 | 4.8% | ||
| MA | 41 | 3.8% | ||
| CT | 20 | 1.8% | ||
| NH | 10 | 0.9% | ||
| VT | 3 | 0.3% | ||
| ME | 2 | 0.2% | ||
| Southeast US | 229 | 21.0% | ||
| NC | 37 | 3.4% | ||
| VA | 33 | 3.0% | ||
| MD | 32 | 2.9% | ||
| FL | 28 | 2.6% | ||
| TN | 21 | 1.9% | ||
| MO | 21 | 1.9% | ||
| GA | 11 | 1.0% | ||
| SC | 11 | 1.0% | ||
| AL | 9 | 0.8% | ||
| DE | 7 | 0.6% | ||
| LA | 6 | 0.5% | ||
| DC | 5 | 0.5% | ||
| KY | 5 | 0.5% | ||
| WV | 3 | 0.3% | ||
| Midwest US | 231 | 21.2% | ||
| OH | 43 | 3.9% | ||
| IL | 41 | 3.8% | ||
| MI | 39 | 3.6% | ||
| MN | 32 | 2.9% | ||
| IN | 25 | 2.3% | ||
| WI | 21 | 1.9% | ||
| KS | 14 | 1.3% | ||
| IA | 9 | 0.8% | ||
| AK | 3 | 0.3% | ||
| NE | 3 | 0.3% | ||
| ID | 1 | 0.1% | ||
| Southwest US | 131 | 12.0% | ||
| TX | 58 | 5.3% | ||
| CO | 25 | 2.3% | ||
| AZ | 22 | 2.0% | ||
| NM | 12 | 1.1% | ||
| UT | 6 | 0.5% | ||
| OK | 5 | 0.5% | ||
| NV | 3 | 0.3% | ||
| Northwest US | 5 | 0.5% | ||
| MT | 2 | 0.2% | ||
| WY | 1 | 0.1% | ||
| ND | 1 | 0.1% | ||
| SD | 1 | 0.1% | ||
| Pacific Coast | 115 | 10.5% | ||
| CA | 86 | 7.9% | ||
| OR | 14 | 1.3% | ||
| WA | 12 | 1.1% | ||
| HI | 3 | 0.3% | ||
| Global, excluding US | 132 | 12.1% | ||
| Europe | 48 | 4.4% | ||
| Asia | 26 | 2.4% | ||
| Canada | 25 | 2.3% | ||
| PR | 9 | 0.8% | ||
| Mid East | 8 | 0.7% | ||
| Africa | 6 | 0.5% | ||
| Mexico & Carribean | 5 | 0.5% | ||
| So. America | 4 | 0.4% | ||
| Australia | 1 | 0.1% | ||
| TOTAL | 1092 | 100.0% | 100.0% |