Educational Ambassadors from Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam Sought
The ASA Committee on International Relations in Statistics is seeking qualified nationals from Pakistan, Thailand, and/or Vietnam to serve as a 2018 Educational Ambassador. New in 2018, ASA will select two Educational Ambassadors. The selected ambassadors will be subsidized to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings to take one or more Continuing Education (CE) courses in an emerging area of research and return to teach the subject matter in his or her home country and/or region.
The nomination deadline is December 31.
The 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 (example CE courses offered in 2017 are available on the website.)
- Return to your home country, and within the next year, teach a one-semester class with no fewer than 10 students on the subject matter of the CE course at the master's level and write lecture notes in the language locally deemed most appropriate. You will need to repeat the class the following semester. (The committee understands there can be practical and organizational considerations that can make it difficult to meet this requirement. Should this arise, the committee will be prepared to work with the ambassador to devise an alternative plan. The ASA will also investigate the possibility of providing 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 has been accomplished and how you invited statisticians from your country to work with you on the subject matter of your course.
The ASA will arrange and pay for the selected ambassador's 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 at geert.molenberghs@uhasselt.be
- 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 the dean) indicating institutional support for your dissemination plan
------------------------------
Rebecca Nichols
Director of Education
American Statistical Association
Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics™
732 North Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-1943
(703) 684-1221, Ext. 1877
Fax: (703) 684-3768
rebecca@amstat.orgwww.amstat.org------------------------------