Dear Dr. Ilvento:

In my capacity as chair of the Faculty Senate Graduate Studies Committee, I am sending you this to make you aware that the following resolution has been recommended by the Graduate Studies Committee and is being submitted to the Coordinating Committee on Education to be considered for presentation to the Faculty Senate.  You are welcome to submit a request by March 7, 2008, on a Faculty Senate Program Approval Form for disestablishment of the Ph.D. in Statistics if you wish, whereby this resolution will be rewritten to reflect that the proposal to disestablish this program is being initiated by the department rather than the Graduate Studies Committee.

Sincerely,

Chuck Mason

Charles E. Mason, Professor
Faculty Senate Graduate Studies Committee Chair
Dept. Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-2160
Phone: 302 831-8888, Fax 831-8889

Whereas, the Ph.D. with a major in Statistics has not had any students enrolled from this program in more than ten years, nor have any students graduated from this program in that period of time, and

Whereas, the University Catalog as far back as 2003 has stated that “applications are not currently accepted for admission to the Ph.D. program in Statistics,” and

Whereas, the Department of Food and Resource Economics, where this program is housed, has not submitted a request to disestablish the Ph.D. program in Statistics, and

Whereas, the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies is charged with making recommendations to the Faculty Senate on matters pertaining to graduate programs, be it therefore

Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends the Ph.D. in Statistics be disestablished, effective Fall 2008.