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Increasing the Pipeline Through Undergraduate Programs: Statistics at Liberal Arts Colleges Katherine Taylor Halvorsen Department of Mathematics Statistics Smith College Workshop for Chairs of Statistics and Biostatistics Programs JSM, Denver, CO August 2, 2008 Overview What’s a liberal arts college? Statistics in liberal arts colleges Challenges for statistics faculty in liberal arts colleges Characteristics of liberal arts students Attracting and keeping liberal arts students in graduate statistics Synergies between liberal arts colleges and statistics graduate programs What’s a Liberal A