Purpose:

Encourage "all SIGCSE members to participate in substantive discussions on areas of community interest, with the goals of investigating topics in depth and culminating with substantive reports."

Mechanics:

• Committee arises from community interest
• SIGCSE Board approves/launches Committee Initiative
• Committee has a specific charge
• Committee has 2-4 facilitators
• All SIGCSE members invited to contribute via dedicated listserv

Four Committees to Date

• Committee on the Implementation of a Discrete Mathematics Course
  • Final report being presented at Joint Mathematics Meetings and SIGCSE 2006
• Committee on Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community
  • Active collaboration with ACM-W
• Committee on Teaching Computer Science Research Methods
  • Proposed Working Group for ITiCSE 2006
• SIGCSE Committee on Models for the Evaluation of Faculty Scholarship
  • Just getting started

Goals:

• Supports "the dissemination of outstanding SIGCSE/ITiCSE presentations to other venues"
• Organizers of "in-cooperation" conferences "may apply for funds to bring one or more speakers from recent SIGCSE or ITiCSE conferences to the meeting to repeat their presentations."

• Wanda Dann to the 2005 CCSC South Central Conference
• Owen Astrachan to the 2005 CCSC Eastern Conference
• Wolfman and Bates to the 2005 CCSC Northwest Conference
• Steve Cooper to the 2005 CCSC Southeast Conference

• Started with an NSF Grant
• Now internally funded by SIGCSE

Goals:

• "Help SIGCSE members investigate and introduce new ideas in the learning and teaching of computing."
• "The project must provide some clear benefit to the wider disciplinary community in the form of new knowledge, developing or sharing of a resource, or good practice in learning, teaching, or assessment."
  • Special Project awards may not be used for equipment purchases.
  • SIGCSE will not normally fund more than one Special Project in any one department at any one time.
  • $5000 USD is the maximum award: smaller bids are encouraged.
  • SIGCSE, as a volunteer organization, will pay only direct costs, not institutional overheads.
  • Projects should not primarily be for internal staff training and development, although this may be a secondary outcome.
• Typically 5-7 awards made per year

created 26 January 2006 last revised 27 January 2006

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