About CAUSE

The CAUSE Charter | CAUSEweb Code of Conduct

Arising from a strategic initiative of the American Statistical Association, CAUSE is a national organization whose mission is to support and advance undergraduate statistics education, in four target areas: resources, professional development, outreach, and research. The overarching goals in each area are:

Resources: Collect, review, develop, and disseminate resources for members of the undergraduate statistics education community.
Professional Development: Coordinate, develop, and disseminate opportunities, programs, and workshops for teachers and others involved in statistics education projects and initiatives, present and future.
Outreach: Establish and promote communication and collaborations among statistics educators, as well as with other professional organizations and disciplines that are concerned with undergraduate statistics education.
Research: Promote and support the advancement of statistics and data science education research.

Our primary vehicle for communication is CAUSEweb.org, which was started with a grant from the National Science Foundation and is now generously supported by the Department of Statistics at Penn State University.

The CAUSE Editorial board is also the statistics editorial board for the MERLOT project.

Institutional Members (email mdb268@psu.edu with membership inquiries)

Amherst College
Appalachian State University
Austin Community College
Ball State University
Brigham Young University
Bucknell University
Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo
Cal Poly at Pomona
Capital University
Carleton College
Central Michigan University
Clarkson University
Cleveland State University
The College at Brockport - SUNY
Columbus State Community College
Dordt College
Duke University
Dutchess Community College
Eastern Kentucky University
Elon University
Florida Atlantic University
Franklin and Marshall College
Frostburg State University
Fullerton College
George Fox University
George Mason University
Georgia Southern University
Grand Valley State University
Grinnell College
Gustavus Adolphus College
Hampton University
Harvard University
College of the Holy Cross
Illinois State University
Iowa State University
Joliet Junior College
Kenyon College
Lander University
Loyola Marymount University
Macalester College
Mayo Clinic
Michigan State University
Middle Tennessee State University
Monroe Community College
Montana State University
Moravian University
Muhlenberg College
North Carolina State University
Northern Kentucky University
Oberlin College
The Ohio State University
Pacific Lutheran University
The Pennsylvania State University
St. Cloud State University
St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Saint Lawrence University
Saint Mary's College of California
Saint Olaf College
Seattle Pacific University
Smith College
Sonoma State University
Taylor University
Texas State University
Truman State University
UCLA
University of California, Irvine
University of California at Riverside
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Cincinnati
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of New Mexico
University of Northern Colorado
University of Texas at El Paso
Valparaiso University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
Westminster College
Winona State University
Wittenberg University

People

Director of CAUSE: Matt Beckman, Penn State University

Associate Co-Directors for Research: Laura Le, University of Minnesota and Jennifer Green, Michigan State University

Associate Director for Resources: Shonda Kuiper (Grinnell College)

USCOTS Program Chairs for 2025: Allan Rossman, Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, and Kelly McConville, Harvard University

eCOTS Program Chair for 2024: Megan Mocko, University of Florida

Editorial Board

Camille Fairbourn (Associate Editor)
Utah State University

Lisa Green (Associate Editor)
Middle Tennessee State University

Ellen Gundlach (Associate Editor)
Purdue University

Nancy McCormick (Associate Editor)
Middle Tennessee State University

Megan Mocko (Associate Editor)
University of Florida

Mark Werner (Associate Editor)
University of Georgia

Carolyn Cuff
Westminster College

Chris Franklin
University of Georgia

Robert Gould
University of California at Los Angeles

Larry Lesser
University of Texas at El Paso

Robin Lock
St. Lawrence University

Jack Miller
University of Michigan

W. Robert Stephenson
Iowa State University

Jeffrey Witmer
Oberlin College

CAUSE Board of Directors

Ming-Wen An
Vassar College

Jennifer Broatch
Arizona State University

Ann Cannon
Cornell College

John Holcomb
Cleveland State University

Leigh Johnson
Capital University

Karen Kinard
Tallahassee Community College

Jack Miller
University of California, Santa Barbara

Rebecca Nichols
American Statistical Association

Allan Rossman (Chair)
Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo

Ginger Rowell
Middle Tennessee State University

Research Advisory Board

Robert delMas
University of Minnesota

Jennifer Noll
TERC

Andrew Zieffler
University of Minnesota

USPROC/eUSR Organizing Committee

Ciaran Evans, Wake Forest University
Jennifer Ward, Clark College
Juanjuan Fan, San Diego State University
Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Vassar College
Shaoyang Ning, Swarthmore College

Webmaster:
Andrew Ferguson (Site Admin), Penn State University

Content Assistance
Sumeda Abeykoon, Middle Tennessee State University
Liming Wang, Middle Tennessee State University
Megan Schulz, Middle Tennessee State University
Darcel Roane, Penn State University

Contact CAUSE

Matt Beckman
Director, CAUSE
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802

Email: mdb268@psu.edu