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Activity Number:
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113
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 4, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #302270 |
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Title:
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Recruiting Undergraduate Statistics Majors and Minors
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Author(s):
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Phyllis J. Curtiss*+ and Paul Stephenson
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Companies:
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Grand Valley State University and Grand Valley State University
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Address:
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Department of Statistics, Allendale, MI, 49401,
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Keywords:
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Recruitment ; Statistics Majors ; Curriculum
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Abstract:
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This poster session will give some ideas for recruiting undergraduate statistics majors and minors. We will discuss curriculum changes; as well as ideas and activities we have used at Grand Valley State University in order to recruit new majors and minors. GVSU is a division 2 school with a total enrollment of 23, 464 students. The university has seen a 33% increase in enrollment over the past ten years. Over this ten year period, the Statistics Department has increased the number of majors from 16 to 60 and the number of minors from 19 to 62. We currently have 14 tenure track faculty members in our department. We offer approximately 110 sections of introductory applied statistics per year, with a cap of 31 students per section.
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