SIGCSE Committee on CS and the Liberal Arts

New SIGCSE Committee

• Overview: Computing programs in liberal arts colleges face two obvious needs. First, someone needs to speak for the liberal arts computing community in larger discussions of computing education. The need is being recognized - for example, the CS2013 committee deliberately recruited members from liberal arts colleges - but no current organization can be considered truly representative of today's liberal arts computing community. Second, faculty in liberal arts computing programs need a network for sharing ideas with similarly situated colleagues. This SIGCSE committee will investigate how widespread these two needs are, identify other needs related to liberal arts computing programs, and propose ways of addressing - for the whole community - any needs it identifies.

• Charter Approved: December 17, 2016

• Informal Meeting: at SIGCSE 2016, Thursday, March 3, 2016

Membership

• Open to all SIGCSE members

• Join the listserv

  • SIGCSE members log into their ACM account (available through SIGCSE membership)
  • Go to listing of all ACM-established listservs at listserv.acm.org
  • Click on the subscribe link for SIGCSE-LIBARTS-COMM.

Status

• Discussion just started in last 1-2 weeks

• Go to SIGCSE-LIBARTS-COMM page (through listserv.acm.org)

• Archive of all messages available on home page

created 17 March 2016 last revised 17 March 2016

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