August has come and a lotof you have joined ICOTS II, the Second International Conference on Teaching Statistics. Some may attribute credit to "Footie", but we are indebed to the ISI Task Force for Conferences on the Teaching of Statistis and to the conference Organizing and Program Committees.<br><br>ICOTS I and this conference have been preceded and interlocked iwth various other conferences, workshops, and meeting sessions ont he teaching of statistics and statistical consulting. This attests to our concerns with the teaching of statistics and the training of statisticians, concerns healthy for the discipline and suggestive of a continuing search for excellence. One may wonder what remains to be said, but reminders and reappraisals are helpful and the nature of our discipline and its setting continue to evolve.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education