A Survey of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the United States and the Publication of a Statistical Abstract of the Results

这个为期三年的项目由数学科学会议委员会（CBMS）批准，将是CBMS对美国本科数学教育的第八次调查。与往年一样，该调查将报告本科数学的课程、招生和人事问题，创建一个其他地方无法获得的纵向信息数据库。这些调查的出版物帮助政府和学术管理人员做出资源分配决策，帮助数学界了解其面临的课程和人员问题，并作为几乎所有关于数学界的国家报告的数据来源。这项名为CBMS2000的调查将包括美国2500个数学科学系（广义定义）中的600多个，这些系在2年制和4年制大学中。微积分改革的影响、数学系的统计学教学以及K-12数学教师的职前教育可能会成为特别关注的领域。与早期调查相比，此次调查的变化将包括：更加强调本科统计教育，加强两年制和四年制大学调查问卷的并行性，利用大学统计实验室对调查数据进行分析，以及向联邦决策者更广泛地传播最终报告。整个报告将通过互联网以电子方式散发。

This three-year project, endorsed by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), will be the eighth CBMS survey of undergraduate mathematics education in the United States. As in past years, the survey will report on curricular, enrollment, and personnel issues in undergraduate mathematics, creating a longitudinal data base of information not available anywhere else. Publications from these surveys have assisted governmental and academic administrators as they make resource allocation decisions, have assisted the mathematical community in understanding the curricular and personnel problems that it faces, and have served as a data source for almost every national report on the mathematical sciences community.CBMS2000, as the survey is called, will include more than 600 of the 2,500 U. S. departments of mathematical sciences (broadly defined) in two-and four-year institutions. The impact of calculus reform, the teaching of statistics in mathematics departments, and the pre-service education of K-12 mathematics teachers are likely to be among special focus areas.Changes from earlier surveys will include a greater emphasis on undergraduate statistical education, enhanced parellelism between the two-year and four-year college questionnaires, the use of a university statistical laboratory to carry out the analysis of survey data, and wider dissemination of the final report to federal decisionmakers. The entire report will be made available for electronic dissemination through the internet.