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 dkp13@psu.edu with membership inquiries)

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

People

Director of CAUSE: Dennis K. Pearl, Penn State University

Associate Co-Directors for Research: Laura Le, University of Minnesota and Matt Beckman, Penn State University

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

Mine Dogucu, University College London
Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Vassar College
Brianna Heggeseth, Macalester College
Maria Tackett, Duke University
Jennifer Ward, Clark 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

Dennis Pearl
Director, CAUSE
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802

Email: dkp13@psu.edu