Welcome
Welcome
to the Web site of the Consortium for Computing Sciences
in Colleges (CCSC). Whether you are a member of the Consortium,
a participant in one of the regional conferences, or a
professor or student with an interest in the issues pertaining
to college computing, our hope is that you will find these
pages informative and useful. Information regarding the
regional conferences sponsored by the consortium is of
particular interest.
Grant Opportunity
The National Science Foundation has announced the release of the CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) Solicitation. Proposals are due by April 28, 2009.
Through the CPATH program, CISE challenges the academic community to identify and define the core concepts, methods, technologies and tools to be integrated into promising new models for undergraduate computing education and to demonstrate effective strategies to implement them in relevant learning communities. CPATH invites proposals from academic institutions and their partners to develop, adopt, implement, and/or extend promising models to infuse computational thinking into undergraduate education.
Challenge your faculty to innovate and move forward with computational thinking as the base for the vision. Consider CPATH as a vehicle realizing the vision and submit a proposal by April 28.
NSF CPATH Team:
Harriet Taylor (htaylor@nsf.gov)
Sylvia Spengler (sspengle@nsf.gov)
Joan Peckham (jpeckham@nsf.gov)
Dmitry Maslov (dmaslov@nsf.gov)
National Partners
A
special welcome to our newest National
Partners - Epic
Systems Corporation and Turing's Craft.
They
join Cengage
Learning, Microsoft
Corporation. Pearson
Education, RidgeSoft, and John
Wiley and Sons in helping support the
acivities of the Consortium. (Read
More)
The
CCSC Newsletter
The September
newsletter contains the President's Welcome, the Editor's message, brief descriptions
of upcoming conferences, and other Consortium news.
CCSC - CSTA Collaboration
Since the General Business Meeting in Houston last spring,
the CCSC Board has moved aggressively forward in discussions
with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) to
identify areas of mutual support. The cooperation between
our organizations is important to both groups.
At the college level, we have a vested interest in restoring
our pipeline of potential computing students. In the K-12
realm, teachers need the support of college faculty for training
and support and to help influence perceptions of the field
as a potential profession. (Read
More)
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From the President
Myles McNally
Alma College
Welcome to another academic year. If you are like me, you are scrambling to get ready to teach your fall slate of courses – I’m teaching Software Engineering for the first time in nearly twenty years! How things have changed. The waterfall model of development potentially harmful? Alternatives to testing for software validation? And let’s not even talk about design patterns, UML diagrams, and agile methods.
It is this rate of change that makes our discipline both challenging and exciting. What should we teach? How should we teach it? These are not easy questions, particularly for those of us at smaller institutions where we don’t have numbers of CS colleagues to talk to. This is one place that our Consortium can help. It has long been our role to hold a number of low-cost, generally pedagogical oriented conferences throughout the United States. I always have a great time at CCSC conferences, getting some new ideas at the sessions and networking with colleagues before and after them. I hope you will be able to attend at least one of these conferences this year. Please consider submitting a paper, proposing a workshop or tutorial, or contributing on some other way to the conference program. With our current roster of 10 regions we cover the country fairly well. (However no conference in Florida yet. Wouldn't that be a nice place for a late fall or early spring conference? Are you interested in helping organize a conference in one of the states CCSC has not yet reached? Let us know.)
Like any incoming President, I have my list of duties, responsibilities, and goals. But they really add up to just one thing: to help CCSC support you, our members, in your professional life. Please feel free to send me any suggestions you might have at mcnally@alma.edu. I know that this might sound trite, but I really hope that we can work together to make this the best organization we can.
Lastly, I would be remiss if I did not thank our outgoing President, Susan Dean, for all the hard work she has done for CCSC over the years. She was an excellent President from whom I learned a lot – did you know that this was her second tour of duty as President? – and her active presence in the CCSC leadership will be missed. Great job Susan!
Upcoming
Conferences
Consider attending
a 2009 CCSC regional conference. See this year's locations
on the Conferences page.
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