FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University Associate Professor Dr. Tom Faulkenberry has been named Chair of the Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics and Data Science Education, co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the Mathematical Association of America.

In his two-year appointment, he will challenge faculty across the nation to critically examine emerging issues in statistics and the teaching of data science.

Dr. Faulkenberry, Director of the Department of Psychological Sciences, has recently served in several national leadership roles, including Secretary/Treasurer of the statistics education special interest group of the Mathematical Association of America and President of the Southwestern Psychological Association.

He is an active researcher with numerous publications in mathematical cognition and Bayesian statistics, including the free textbook Learning Statistics with JASP: A Tutorial for Psychology Students and Other Beginners and Psychological Statistics: The Basics, to be published in April by Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

A founding member of The Texas A&M System, Tarleton State is breaking records — in enrollment, research, scholarship, athletics, philanthropy and engagement — while transforming the lives of nearly 17,000 students in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Bryan and online. True to Tarleton’s values of excellence, integrity and respect, academic programs emphasize real world learning and address regional, state and national needs.