Sponsored with seed money from a 2013 ASA Member Initiative grant, the ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians (CAS) is launching a pilot partnership ASA mentorship program for applied statisticians.
Mentorship initiatives targeted toward practicing statisticians have been made in a variety of ASA units, including some sections, chapters, and committees. Also, a past ASA president wrote two Amstat News columns on mentoring. Yet, many have come to CAS asking if such a program exists.
The scope of this pilot will focus on self-identified applied statisticians—both recent master’s and PhD graduates—and statisticians who have been out of graduate school for 5–12 years. Members of CAS will work with these statisticians in all areas, including academia, industry, and the government sector. The program will include clearinghouse, consultative, and selected hands-on mentoring activities.
A website is being developed to explain the program in detail, including the clearinghouse, so mentees can be referred to ongoing mentoring efforts when appropriate. CAS would like to learn from and partner with ongoing mentoring efforts in other units of the ASA. Contact CAS Chair Amarjot Kaur at amarjot_kaur@merck.com to discuss past and current mentoring efforts you may have been involved in or for general questions about the initiative.
Are you interested in becoming a mentor to an applied statistician and helping us pilot this program during its first year of operation? Are you a potential mentee, or can you nominate an applied statistician who may be looking for a mentorship program? If so, please email contact information to CAS Vice-Chair Erin Tanenbaum at Tanenbaum-Erin@norc.org with “ASA CAS Mentor Program” in the subject line. Also send a résumé/CV to help us match mentors and mentees.
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