SIGCSE Update February 2011

Barbara Boucher Owens

2/7/2011 1Ed Council

• New Board• Conferences Update• New Projects• New Endorsements

2/7/2011 2Ed Council

Tons of Education Related Activities

SIGCSE.org

2/7/2011 3Ed Council

Elections 2010Chair : Renée McCauley College of CharlestonVice Chair: Dan Joyce VillanovaSecretary: Susan Rodger DukeTreasurer: Doug Baldwin SUNY GeneseoAt Large: Tiffany Barnes UNC Charlotte

Mark Guzdial Georgia TechAmber Settle DePaul University

Past Chair: Barbara Boucher Owens Southwestern University

2/7/2011 4Ed Council

Conference Update

ITiCSE 2010 Ankara Turkey

Instituted Best Working Groups Reports

2/7/2011 5Ed Council

Conference UpdateICER 2010

Aarhus Denmark

2/7/2011 6Ed Council

Upcoming Conference Update

SIGCSE 2011 42nd Technical Symposium Dallas Texasregistration ahead of last year, strong workshopsMarch 9-11

Award winners: Matthias Felleisen Educator Gordon Davies Service

2/7/2011 7Ed Council

Upcoming Conference Update

ITiCSE 2011 Darmstadt Germany June 25-29ICER 2011 Providence Rhode Island August 8-9

SIGCSE 2012 Raleigh North CarolinaITiCSE 2012 Haifa IsraelICER 2012 New Zealand

2/7/2011 8Ed Council

New Projects• Funded SIGCSE special project supporting TauRUS -

Taulbee for the Rest Of US project to survey departments not surveyed by Taulbee• Several others through special projects fund• New awards committee – • SIGCSE and non-SIGCSE awards• Future best papers at conferences

• Commissioned white paper • on dual teaching/research lines

2/7/2011 9Ed Council

Board Endorsements• AP Principles Course Development Effort• Proposed ACM SIG BP• Broadening Participation in Computing• Strengthened collaboration with CSTA• BOF at Symposium• Reduced teacher rates at Symposium• Statement on Academic Governance • based on UNESCO and AAUP

2/7/2011 10Ed Council

Come to Dallas

Psst – • Donald Knuth speaking at UPE co-located meeting• Robot hoedown and rodeo – wranglers needed

Sheraton Dallas