Background (the stars align):
- In 2000, NKU had no consulting center (no competition)
- Statistics assistance was "catch-as-catch-can"
- Statisticians did a lot of pro bono work that wasn't being
formally credited
- A program called CINSAM (the Center
for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics) was coming on line (with
focus in outreach to schools and the community, and integrating math into
the sciences)
- Our department
- is of Math and CS (and statistics -- we still serve
all the statistics needs on campus)
- We have no graduate students (except in CS)
- A veteran statistician was retiring, and an eager beaver was
coming on-line