We base this report on a survey of liberal arts college departments of mathematical sciences. The purpose of the survey was to gain basic curricular and pedagogical information about the discipline of statistics within liberal arts colleges. In 1988 and again in 1993, students in the Statistics and the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW) sent a questionnaire to populations of liberal arts colleges. Tom Moore and Julie Legler sent out a similar survey in August of 2003 (with follow-ups in September, October, and December). The target population was the Carnegie-classified liberal arts colleges (N=199). We received 134 responses for a 67% response rate. The 1993 survey used as its target population those classified as "selective liberal arts colleges" by the Carnegie Foundation, a classification that did not exist in 2003. The response rate in 1993 was 77% (108/141).
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