The MAA, in partnership with other mathematical sciences organizations, supports data-collection efforts to provide faculty and departments with the information necessary to inform productive decision-making.
Task Force Reports
Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences
- New Ph.D. recipients (dissertations, gender, race/ethnicity and citizenship, and employment plans)
- Faculty (size, recruitment, hiring, and salaries)
- Graduate students (enrollment status, gender, and citizenship)
- Degrees awarded (Ph.D., master's, and bachelor's)
- Course enrollments (graduate and undergraduate)
provides invaluable information to the mathematical sciences community. Specialized peer group analyses are used by department chairs to gain support from administrators for program expansions and faculty salary negotiations.
CBMS Statistical Survey of the Mathematical Sciences
- Enrollments
- Curriculum
- Bachelor's degrees awarded
- Course availability
- Faculty demographics
- Special one-time topics, which in the past have included:
- impact of the calculus-reform movement
- academic resources available to undergraduates
- the mathematical education of pre-service K-8 teachers
- requirements of of the national mathematics major
are of use to academic planners at all levels and department chairs seeking additional resources from college and university administrators. Survey results are used at the state and national level in making a case for greater attention to and funding for programs in mathematics, science, and technology.
Quantitative Literacy Reports
This contains information and reports concerning Quantitative Literacy that were formerly located on the website of the National Council on Education and the Disciplines (NCED) at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. Questions or suggestions should be addressed to the President of the National Numeracy Network or the Chair of the MAA SIG-QL .
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