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ANNUAL REPORT of the ACM TWO-YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE for the period July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Submitted By: Robert D. Campbell
MEMBERSHIP:
Name	Committee Position	Term of Office	Title	Affiliation	Email Address
Robert D. Campbell	Chair	Through June 2005	Vice-President of IT	Rock Valley College	b.campbell@rvc.cc.il.us
Karl J. Klee	Member	Through June 2006	Professor	Alfred State College	kleekj@alfredstate.edu
Elizabeth K. Hawthorne	Member	Through June 2005	Associate Professor	Union County College	ehawthorne@acm.org
PURPOSE:
The Two-Year College (TYC) Education Committee is a standing committee (since October, 1991) of the ACM Education Board. The Committee is concerned with all education issues that affect computing at two-year colleges and in two-year degree programs. The primary purpose of the Committee is to provide curriculum recommendations in all areas of computing for such degree programs. The Committee may also make recommendations on other educational matters affecting such programs.
The TYCEC achieved the following milestones in FY06:
development of the initial draft of the Guidelines for Associate-Degree Transfer Curriculum in Computer Engineering report which is now being distributed to reviewers investigated the efficacy of proposed curriculum guidelines for career-oriented programs in computer engineering participated in stage-setting activities for a project to update the associate-degree Information Technology curriculum report produced a draft promotional flier detailing the resources available to the two-year college community via the ACM TYCEC; collaborated with ACM Headquarters staff on related strategies updated and enhanced the acmtyc.org website and associated resources continued to inform constituents of its activities via the regular column in the SIGCSE Inroads publication and related activity further established groundwork for increasing the internationalization of its work
The TYCEC plans to undertake the following activities in FY07:
finalize the curriculum report titled Guidelines for Associate-Degree Transfer Curriculum in Computer Engineering initiate a major undertaking for updating the previous TYCEC curriculum report in Information Technology develop a structured overview report that unifies the TYCEC curricular guidelines for end-users continue its dissemination and outreach activities, including mailings, website improvements, conference poster sessions and exchanges with colleagues (especially with regard to individuals external to the US), as well as continuing our SIGCSE Inroads column and participating in the Ed Council
COMMENTS
We appreciate the ongoing funding support from the ACM Ed Board and we are pleased that we have been able to supplement funding through collaborative ventures. The Committee's website can be found at www.acmtyc.org.