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SIGCSE Panel
March 12, 2010
Heikki Topi
Discussions between NSF (Harriet Taylor and Joe
Urban) and ACM Education Board in 2007,
culminating in a joint meeting in December 2007
◦ Early focus on enrollment crisis and RAGS report
◦ Original intent to have the meeting in Summer 2008
Formal funding application to NSF in Summer
2008
Strong pushback related to RAGS in the
December 2008 ACM Education Council meeting
Reorientation of the summit focus (with NSF’s
approval) in early 2009
Planning Committee:
◦ Mark Guzdial (Chair), Jane Prey, Heikki Topi, and Joe
Urban, advised by Boots Cassell
Invitations to participating organizations in
February – March 2009
Planning meeting in March 2009
Preparation of the summit booklet in MayJune 2009
Summit on June 25-26, 2009 in Washington,
D.C.
Sent in February – March 2009
Including a request to fill out an information
form:
◦ Mission, membership, role in computing education,
three challenges, top three things that should be done,
suggestion for a common goal
Stated purpose: “to come to a shared vision of
the problems facing us in computing education
and of how we might address those problems”
Commitment to “release the complete agenda
and participant list, as well as the completed
information forms well in advance of the
meeting”
A one-day face-to-face meeting of the
Planning Committee in March 2009
Clarified summit goals
◦ A consensus view of the challenges facing
Computing Education
◦ A shared set of strategies for addressing these
challenges
◦ Plans for coordinated effort for implementing
these strategies
Formulated the agenda and specified the
processes for conducting the meeting
◦ Used the information form submissions
◦ Challenges Strategies Actions Priorities and
commitments
◦ Initial categorization of challenges: Diversity,
Revising Curriculum, Professional
Development/Life-long Learning, Attractive and
Inviting Pedagogy, Identity of Computing,
Promoting Computing
Identified additional participating
organizations
List of Attendees
◦ 12 organizations participated: ACM Ed Board, ACM
SIGCSE, ACM SIGITE, AIS, ASEE, CRA, CSTA, IEEE-CS,
iSchool Caucus, NCWIT, NSF, and SIM
Foreword
Agenda
Society information pages
◦ Additional organizations: Coalition to Diversify
Computing, CompTIA Educational Foundation,
EDUCAUSE
Participants
ACM Ed Board Mark Guzdial, Jane Prey, Heikki Topi, Lillian (Boots)
Cassel
ACM SIGCSE
Barbara Boucher Owens
ACM SIGITE
Han Reichgelt
AIS
Mary J. Granger
ASEE
Sarah Rajala, Dennis Silage
CRA
Andy Bernat, Andy Van Dam
CSTA
Gail Chapman, Stephanie Hoeppner
IEEE-CS
Tom Hilburn, Alan Clements, Stephen B. Seidman
iSchools
John Unsworth
NCWIT
Lucy Sanders, Lecia Barker
NSF
Harriet Taylor, Janice Cuny, Joan Peckham, Victor
Piotrowski, Rajinder Khosla, Ty Znati, Amy Sharma
SIM
Debabroto “Dave” Chatterjee
Texas Tech /
formerly NSF
Joe Urban
Day 1
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Groups worked on Challenges Report back
Planning Committee integrated results
Groups worked on Strategies Report back
Groups worked on Actions to implement Strategies
Planning Committee integrated results for voting
Day 2
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Reports on Actions
Voting on Actions: Ownership and Participation
Enabling Communication and Coordination
Conclusion
Services of a professional writer were
included in the budget
All sessions were recorded and transcribed
A report was completed in September 2009
and distributed to the participants
Website now available at
http://www.acm.org/education/future-ofcomputing-education-summit