INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND

• UMM: a public liberal arts college

a part of the University of Minnesota system.

• Approximately 1700 undergraduate students

• Major and minor in statistics

• "Introduction to Statistics" a service course

fulfills a quantitative general education requirement

• Enrollment per year: 360 (+60 online)

• Introduction to Statistics (GenEdWEB) 1996-

• Statistics as a Discipline 1999