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.
Election Results are In
Congratulations to the winners in the 2008 CCSC elections! The winners are:
Vice President: Bob Neufeld
Regional Representatives:
Eastern: Liz Adams
Central Plains: Scott Sigman
Midwest: Deb Hwang
Southwestern: Kim Kihlstrom
Regional represenatives serve three year terms. The Vice President serves in that role for two years, and then serves two years as the President of CCSC. Currently vice-president, Myles McNally moves into a two year term as president. All of these changes became effective August 1st.
New CCSC Region
The Consortium is excited that a
new region is being established in the South West. The first
conference was
held April 18-19, 2008, hosted by California State
University Northridge. The conference featured
professional papers panels and tutorial presentations, a student
programming contest, and a student poster session.
This brings Consortium sponsored conferences
to ten per year and pretty well covers the geographic lower
48 states. We’re excited about the enthusiasm that
is being generated in
southern California over this new regional conference.
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
Susan Dean
UMUC - Europe
How time flies – hard to believe that my two-year term as CCSC President is coming to an end already! It’s been good to see more and more people becoming involved at
the regional level, and the addition of our 10th region! I hope that we have made major progress toward improving communication between the Board and the people at the
regional level who do the work of putting on our
conferences, including the all-important double-blind peer
reviewing that makes our Journal as strong as it is.
I appreciate the opportunity to have served in this
office, and know I am leaving it in the good hands of
Myles McNally, to be followed by Bob Neufeld. I will
now enjoy working more “behind scenes”. Look forward
to seeing many of you in print, and at SIGCSE and our
regional conferences!
National Partners
A
special welcome to our newest National
Partner - Epic
Systems Corporation.
They
join Cengage
Learning, Microsoft
Corporation. Pearson
Education, RidgeSoft,
Turing's Craft, and John
Wiley and Sons in helping support the
acivities of the Consortium. (Read
More)
The
CCSC Newsletter
The June
newsletter contains the Editor's message, brief descriptions
of upcoming conferences, and other Consortium news.
Upcoming
Conferences
Consider attending
a 2007-2008 CCSC regional conference. See next year's locations
on the Conferences page
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