Introduction

I present this online portfolio in support of my application for tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistic. This portfolio will differ from most, in that I came to Winona State as an experienced teacher. I have accumulated nearly 20 years of teaching experience and was been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.

It wasn't easy leaving a tenured position to start over at a new school, but the opportunity to join the statistics and data science faculty at Winona State was too good to pass up. Over the last four and a half years, I have been able to complement and improve the data science program at Winona State using my training as a statistician, previous research in machine learning, and experience teaching programming. I also will provide evidence of sustained growth and excellence in all the other activities–quality instruction, service, scholarship, continuing education, and a dedication to student growth–need to succeed as a faculty member at a 4-year liberal arts university.