The ASA Committee on International Relations in Statistics is seeking qualified nationals from Pakistan, Thailand, and/or Vietnam to serve as 2018 Educational Ambassadors. New in 2018, the ASA will select two educational ambassadors to receive funding to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings and take one or more continuing education (CE) courses in an emerging area of research. The ambassadors will then return to teach the subject matter in their home country and/or region.
The nomination deadline is December 31.
Selected ambassadors will be expected to complete the following by December 2019:
- Attend the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, BC, Canada, to take CE courses in an emerging area of statistics research (view CE courses offered in 2017).
- Return to their home country and, within the next year, teach a one-semester master’s-level class with no fewer than 10 students on the subject matter of the CE course and write lecture notes in the language locally deemed most appropriate. Ambassadors will need to repeat the class the following semester. (The committee understands there can be practical and organizational considerations that make it difficult to meet this requirement. Should these arise, the committee is prepared to work with the ambassadors to devise an alternative plan. The ASA will also investigate the possibility of providing generic ativan medicine further assistance through recorded webinars related to the CE course material.)
- Submit a report by December 2019 to the ASA through the Committee on International Relations in Statistics and the ambassador’s home institution describing how the transfer of knowledge was accomplished and how the ambassadors invited statisticians from their country to work with them on the subject matter of their course.
The ASA will arrange and pay for the selected ambassadors’ airfare, hotel, meeting registration, and CE course registration. The ASA also will reimburse the visa application fee and provide a $500 stipend.
Candidates for the ambassadorship must hold a PhD or equivalent degree in statistics or a related field and be employed at the level of assistant or associate professor at a recognized university or research organization promoting the teaching and application of statistics.
Interested candidates should send the following to committee chair Geert Molenberghs:
- A curriculum vitae
- A proposal (at most two pages) describing how the ambassadorship will help disseminate knowledge of statistics in your country and how the ASA’s expectation set forth above will be implemented upon your return home
- A letter from the head of your academic unit (e.g., department chair, director, or dean) indicating institutional support for your dissemination plan
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