CBMS Research Advisory Group

The first meeting of the CBMS Research Advisory Group, co-sponsored by TPSE,  was held in Washington, DC at the MAA Carriage House on Saturday, August 26, 2017. It identified three areas for work:

1. Math in the workplace. What problems are we trying to solve where data would be useful and we don’t already know the answers? How can we educate employers about what  the mathematical community believes it is contributing and why it is important? How can we put in place the mechanisms that allow us to work on a long timeline for the continuous improvement of the mathematical preparation of critical constituencies?
2. Barriers and accelerators. What are the goals for our students? How do we define success? How do we measure success? What trusted resources are available for recognizing barriers and accelerators? How can we make these resources more widely available?
3. The role of the CBMS societies. How can the CBMS societies best meet emerging problems? How do we strengthen the improvement infrastructure of our profession? What are the timely problems that we face that require activating this infrastructure? How do we surface them quickly enough? What are the information needs of the profession to support hypothesis generation and creative R&D work? How do we nurture and feed this improvement infrastructure? How do we support it? How do we review and improve it? How do we identify the problems and practices that are worthy of solution? What information and data structures do we need? 

Read the full report of the meeting.