Ed Board Activities

Ed Board Activities

Eydie Lawson, Ed Board Member

NCAA Issue

For students first entering NCAA institutions on or after August 1, 2005, computer science courses cannot be used to meet initial-eligibility requirements.

http://www.ncaa.org/eligibility/cbsa/academic.html

Letter to NCAA Work collaboratively to identify

problems and develop solutions

Modernizing the Education Board

Responsible for leadership and oversight of ACM educational activities

Membership and future leadership

– Add younger members

– Modify structure to widen participation

• Include other constituencies

• Education Council

Curriculum Initiatives

Curriculum guidelines– Volume revisions more frequent– IT new addition

– CS, IS, MSIS, CE

TYCEC SE transfer curriculum guidelines

– SE track in 2-year CS

– Promote articulation agreements

Overview volume (SE, IS, CS, CE, IT)http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=971470&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&ret=1#Fulltext

Curriculum

Ontology project– Ed Board supports non-US members

Java Task Force (Eric Roberts)– Materials for first-year computing students– Final report due June 2005

Great Principles of Computing project– Committee of 20– Define computing field beyond programming

Build International Relationships

British Computing Society

Expand membership to other international organizations

Joint meeting with BCS

Conference presentations

Other Issues

Accreditation Certification

– (ICCP) Institute for Certification Computing Professionals