Statistics has been successfully rebranded outside of academia as "data science". I appreciate that academia typically stays above the fray on these sorts of issues, but a rebranding might be helpful in this particular case.<p>EDIT: It also might be worth considering whether statistics is really sliding per se or whether statistics has, during its apparent decline, pervaded many other cutting edge fields. It's impossible to imagine where computer science, biology and physics would be without the tools and the methods of inquiry that statistics provides.
Previously discussed her I believe: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228978" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228978</a>