Agendas from all previous meetings (and minutes, when available)

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2010,Vancouver  (Moderator: Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College)

• Election of new moderator
• Isostat website
• Isostat suggestions for tenure and review of statisticians

2009, Washington DC  (Moderator: Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College)

2008, Denver  (Moderator: Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College)

• Jobs in government agencies
• Off-campus programs in statistics and REUs
• Outreach to isolated statisticians
• Use of PowerPoint

2007, Salt Lake City  (Moderator: Ann Cannon, Cornell College)

• Appropriate use of isostat list-server
• Getting students with AP credit to take more statistics courses
• Encouraging good students to go to graduate school
• Should the isostat group be more outreach focused?

2006, Seattle  (Moderator: Ann Cannon, Cornell College)

• Isostat website
• Format for the annual meeting
• Introductory Statistics Course
• Organized exchange of syllabi and tests?
• What statistics courses are being offered?
• Managing statistical consulting
• Joint research experiments?
• Negotiating "turf" issues

· Encouraging ASA membership

2005, Minneapolis  (Moderator: Ann Cannon, Cornell College)

• Getting students to take our upper level courses (and what should those courses be?)
• Should our software labs be equivalent to science labs?
• Should ASA have different membership rates based upon income (similar to MAA)? Should ASA have different institutional rates for colleges and universities?
• Isostat website
• Speakers list of isolated statisticians willing to speak at research institutions about our jobs

2004, Toronto  (Moderator: Ann Cannon, Cornell College)

• The tenure review process in a mathematics department
• Obtaining grants by isolated statisticians
• Revisiting regional meetings of isolated statisticians
• Identifying websites of interest to isolated statisticians
• Isostat website
• Different types of JSM sessions and the deadlines involved

2003, San Francisco  (Moderator: Ann Cannon, Cornell College)

• Distance education – is anyone doing it?
• Skills test for statistics – what should be on it?
• Assessment test for statistical knowledge (pre/post test)
• Funding for our a/v needs at future meetings
• Getting the word out about our group

2002, New York  (Moderator: Dex Whittinghill, Rowan University)

• The one-talk rule at JSM
• Independent projects for students
• Ways for meaningful interaction between the ASA Stat Ed and the MAA SIGMAA on Stat Ed
• What sources are there for funding regional ISMs?
• Time to remember Anne Sevin and Gordy Bril

2001, Atlanta  (Moderator: Dex Whittinghill, Rowan University)

• The new MAA SIGMAA on Statistics Education
• The Isolated Statisticians e-mail list (how it should be managed, rules, etc.)
• The Board of Director’s Task Force on Membership, and recruiting for the ASA
• Web Course Management Software
• Our meeting time

2000, Indianapolis  (Moderator: Dex Whittinghill, Rowan University)

• Recruiting new members for the ASA.
• Discussion of the Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiative (USEI) recommendations
• Should the Isolated Statisticians formalize/regularize their existence?  (No!)

1999, Baltimore  (Moderator: Dex Whittinghill, Rowan University)

• A calculus-based introductory statistics course
• Undergraduate majors and minors in statistics
• Hiring situation for isolated statisticians
• Isolated Teachers of Statistics Group and the two e-mail lists
• Web-based assignments (i.e., finding data off of the web)

1998, Dallas  (Moderator: Dex Whittinghill, Rowan University)

• Statistics resources for elementary school teachers
• Institutional research departments/offices at our institutions
• Isolated statisticians helping other isolated statisticians and tenure reviews
• Ingram Olkin’s letter to FOCUS (Aug/Sep 1998)

1997, Anaheim  (Moderator: Dex Whittinghill, Rowan University)

• How our schools deal with the AP statistics exam
• How do we ‘warn’ new Ph.D.s about ‘bad’ departments
• Finding collaborators for doing research
• Isolated statisticians web page
• Annual salary listings and the Isolated Statistician

1996, Chicago  (Moderator: Jeff Witmer, Oberlin College)

• What can the ASA office do for the isolated statisticians
• What the isolated statisticians can do at the JMMs
• ASA and MAA cooperation
• Regional ISMs
• Curriculum requirements of different schools

1995, Orlando  ((Moderator: Jeff Witmer, Oberlin College)

• Mathematical statistics course
• Spreadsheets in statistics

1994, Toronto  (Moderator: Jeff Witmer, Oberlin College)

• Software purchasing
• Liaisons between undergraduate schools and major universities
• MAA Guidelines/FOCUS article
• Calculus reform
• Possible winter ASA meetings at JMMs

1993, San Francisco  (Moderator: Jeff Witmer, Oberlin College)

• Consulting
• CIS liscensing
• Graphing calculators
• Certification of undergraduate programs?
• RCOTS
• MAA Guidelines for mathematics departments
• Isostat e-mail list

1992, Boston  (Moderator: Jeff Witmer, Oberlin College)

• CIS on PCs
• Forming consortiums for purchasing software
• Certification of statisticians or undergraduate programs?
• Isostat e-mail list

1991, Atlanta  (Moderator: Jeff Witmer, Oberlin College)

• Teaching statistics in a non-statistics department
• Representing our profession in a non-statistics department
• Ways of communicating with other statisticians through ASA publications
• Strengthening ties with large universities
• Proposal for certifying undergraduate programs