Presiding: CCSC President Charles P. Howerton

Present (with apologizes to those whose handwriting was misread by the secretary): M.Dee Medley, Ingrid Russell, Becky Fallon, Scott Mcelfresh, Matthew Dickerson, Dick Hull, Sue Fitzgerald, John Mcabe, Laura Baker, Peter Isaacson, Kevin Treu, Bob Owens, Paula Gabbert, Herb Dershem, Myles McNally, Jim Aman, Anil Shende, Dave Moharey, Bill Marion, Rob Bryant, Ken Blaha, Martha M Foamult, Gail Miles, John Ross, David Mann, T.S.Pennington, Anne Cable, Ron Tenison, George Crocker, Susan Dean, Will Mitchell, Curt M.White, Clif Kussmaul, William Myer, Cathy Bareiss, Chuck Howerton.

• President--Charles P. Howerton
• President Elect--Matthew T. Dickerson
• Immediate Past President--Susan Dean

Charles also announced the increase in participation at conferences, the recent split journal, and the increase in membership.

Central Plains (T.S. Pennington): Spring 2000 conference will be held on April 7-8. They have 13 papers, 7 tutorials, 1 panel, and a keynote speaker on digital signal technology. There will be another lecture on the history of computing. Spring 2001 will be a joint conference hosted by two schools (Southwest Baptist and Missouri Southern), in Branson Missouri--tentatively looking at the second weekend in April. Leaders of those schools have been on the region steering committee.

Rocky Mountain (Peter Isaacson): Written report was distributed. Peter verbally noted a highlight of the conference was student paper presentations. Fall conferences will be held in Orem Utah in 2001, and in Rapid City in 2001. They hope to try a Friday morning or Saturday afternoon workshop at the 2000 conference.

Midwest (Jim Aman): The call is out for papers. The 2000 conference is Sept.22-23 at Valpairaiso. The 2001 conference is scheduled for Olivette Nazarene.

South Central (Laura Baker) : The 2000 conference is April 14-15. They have accepted 28 papers, 5 Tutorials, 12 Student papers and 3 student posters. Registration fee is a bit higher. It will be in Corpus Cristi with a boat ride. Hoping for 125 to 150. It has been well-marketted in the state of Texas. The 2001 conference is scheduled is for Amarillo.

Southeast (Kevin Treu): Successful conference last November at Augusta state, reversing a declining trend. They will be at Roanoke in Salem Virginia in November 3-4 of 2000. The next conference will incorporate a student paper contest. The programming contest at the previous conference had 20 teams (which was maximum capacity.)

Northeast (Viera Proulx): The 5th annual NE regional conference will be April 28-29 in Ramapo, New Jersey. We had increased submissions (perhaps thanks to SIGCSE in-cooperation agreement) with 30 papers accepted. Proceedings will be in the ACM digital library. There will be a post-banquet celebration with live music from the blues band "Deep Freyed". In 2001 the conference is scheduled for Middlebury College in Vermont.

Viera answered questions about the budget, and the expectations of the hosting institution being made explicit. John noted that the Northeast has been succesful at drawing people.

Northwest (Rob Bryant): Report was e-mailed out. 1st conference with 51 people. On October 13-14, 2000 in Beaverton Oregon. Used a SIGCSE presenter, and has already lined one up for 2000.

 3. NECC Report (Gail Miles): Report was e-mailed out. In 2001 the conference is scheduled for Chicago. There is a CCSC presence at NECC (not in number of attendees, but in name recognition).

4. Conference Coordinator's Report (Will Mitchell)

Will went over the mission of CCSC: to support computer science teaching at teaching institutions. The goal: no teacher farther than 300 miles from a CCSC conference. That leaves lots of territory uncovered: Southwest California, the lower Mississippi valley, Pittsburg, etc.

5. Membership Report (Cathy Bareiss):

Cathy reiterated that members should now have membership cards. They should use them (e.g. refer to the number) when registering.

6. Publications Report (John Meinke):

The September issues became a copy of the newsletter. We usually have four issues of the journal. One issues was split so March, April, May had separate issues for a total of five.

7. Web Site Report (Kevin Treu):

Check out www.ccsc.org. He is open to suggestions.

8. Treasurer's report (Bill Myers)

See spreadsheet

9. Nominating Committee Report (Susan Dean):

Susan asked for nominations for president-elect (Ingrid Russell), publications chair (John Meinke), and reps for SE (Bob Rieser), NW (Rob Bryant), and SC (Carl Steady).

Cathy announced that Baker U. is hiring for a one-year position.