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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
ACM TWO-YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
for the period
July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
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Robert D. Campbell, outgoing chair, and Dr. Elizabeth K.
Hawthorne, incoming chair, provide the following report on the activities
of the Two-Year College Education Committee (TYCEC):
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MEMBERSHIP:
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Name
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Committee Position
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Title
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Affiliation |
Email Address |
| Robert D. Campbell |
Outgoing Chair
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Vice-President of IT |
Graduate Center CUNY |
rcampbell@gc.cuny.edu |
| Elizabeth K. Hawthorne |
Incoming Chair
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Associate Professor |
Union County College |
ehawthorne@acm.org |
| Karl J. Klee |
Member
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Professor |
Alfred State College |
kleekj@alfredstate.edu |
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PURPOSE:
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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.
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The TYCEC achieved the following milestones in FY07:
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- finalized the Guidelines for Associate-Degree Transfer Curriculum
in Computer Engineering report which was approved by the Ed Board and
is now posted on the Committee's website.
- produced and distributed (in collaboration with ACM Headquarters staff)
an informational brochure detailing the resources available to the two-year
college community via the ACM TYCEC.
- updated and enhanced the acmtyc.org website and associated resources,
including a structured overview that unifies the TYCEC curricular guidelines
for end-users, provides guidance on the distinctions between the computing
sub-disciplines and links to associated curriculum guidelines.
- executed activities in preparation for updating the associate-degree
Information Technology curriculum report.
- continued to inform constituents of its activities via the regular
column in the SIGCSE Inroads publication and related activity.
- furthered the internationalization of its work, including a poster
session presented at the June 2007 ITiCSE conference in Dundee, Scotland.
- supported the goals and objectives of the ACM Education Council.
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and in FY08 plans to pursue the following activities:
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- initiate a major undertaking for updating the previous TYCEC curriculum
report in Information Technology.
- participate/cooperate with the committee that is working on the five-year
interim report to update the Computer Science curriculum, and as a result
update the associated two-year college education curriculum report in
Computer Science.
- reconstitute the leadership and membership of the TYCEC.
- continue its dissemination and outreach activities, including mailings,
website enhancements, conference sessions and exchanges with colleagues,
as well as continuing our SIGCSE Inroads column and participating with
the ACM Ed Council.
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