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Abstract #300084

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Activity Number: 320
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Consulting
Abstract - #300084
Title: Statistical Consulting within Agriculture
Author(s): Marcia L. Gumpertz*+
Companies: North Carolina State University
Address: Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8203,
Keywords: consulting ; agriculture ; collaboration ; tenure ; training ; service
Abstract:

NCSU has a large College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). Several statistics faculty positions are partly funded by CALS for the purpose of providing consulting services to the college. The consulting faculty serve as statistical liaisons to CALS departments, providing faculty, staff, and graduate students with unlimited free statistical consulting. This liaison system promotes development of long-term collaborative relationships. Consulting and research responsibilities tend to blend together for statistics faculty in these positions. The liaison model has worked well for CALS; however, there are several challenges. Consulting service to the rest of the university is much more limited, and there is more demand than we can satisfy. Training students in consulting requires commitment from the entire statistics faculty, and everyone is stretched for time. The issue of evaluating consulting faculty for promotion and tenure remains difficult. The NCSU Statistics Department values consulting highly and has written guidelines to assess the scholarly contribution of statistical consulting, but the criteria must be discussed and interpreted anew and reaffirmed frequently.

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