During the process of defining the department's goals for the next five years, it becomes clear that they must be framed under essentially current staffing resources but with the benefit of a relocation to a new facility providing twice the current square footage.
Substantial progress is possible provided priorities receive proper attention.
The department envisions the continued growth of one or more of its promising research foci, the presence of a larger cohort in its Ph.D. program, the successful inauguration of a biostatistics degree program within statistics, the emergence of a flourishing Center for Applied Statistics and a modernized curriculum at all levels, from lower division courses to doctoral level courses.