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ASA Board
Highlights of the March 2015 ASA Board of Directors Meeting
President David Morganstein welcomed board members to the ASA office in Alexandria, Virginia, for its first meeting of 2015.
A Seven-Year Itch … or a Seventh-Inning Stretch
Sastry Pantula, 2010 president of the ASA, looks back on his years of service to the association and enthusiastically views the years ahead.
Highlights of the November 2011 ASA Board of Directors Meeting
Nancy Geller, 2011 ASA president, led the board through a rich agenda that reflected the membership’s diversity of areas of statistical practice during its final meeting of 2011.
Board Approves Accreditation Guidelines
The ASA Board of Directors recently approved a set of guidelines for accreditation developed by the ASA Accreditation Committee. The committee was formed last year, after the board endorsed a recommendation to begin a program of voluntary individual accreditation of statisticians.
What Is Accreditation? First and foremost, accreditation is a service offered only to members of the ASA. Not all members will want to seek accreditation; however, the experiences of colleagues in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom regarding accreditation have been encouraging.