SIGITE

ACM Ed Council MeetingJune 2012

2012 Election Results

• Chair - Rob FriedmanUniversity of Washington Tacoma

• Vice Chair - Mihaela SabinUniversity of New Hampshire Manchester

• Secretary/Treasurer - Rick HomkesPurdue University

SIGITE 2012/ RIIT 2012

• Co-located conferences– SIGITE: Education emphasis Continues– RIIT: IT Research conference

• Strong core of participants• Enthusiastic host volunteers

2010 – Central Michigan University2011 – United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)2012 – Mt. Royal University (Calgary, Alberta)2013 – University of South Florida Polytechnic (Lakeland, FL)

• Steady Participation• IT Chairs Meeting• Encouraging IT Research• Best Paper Award at each conference• Student Scholarships

SIGITE Funded IT Program Study

• Over 2,000 4-year institutions studied• 909 4-year institutions identified with potential IT programs• Approximately 300 of these 909 programs looked enough

like an IT program (as defined by their similarity to the IT2008 Model Curriculum) that they were scored on a scale of 0-4, where 4 indicates a perfect match to the IT2008 Model Curriculum

• Work presently about 95% complete, with analysis to follow.

• Paper to be presented at SIGITE 2012

IT 20??

• Started IT2008 review SIGITE 2011• New inputs:

– IEEE-CS IT BoK project– Australian Computer Society work– Canadian Information Processing society work– BCS ??

• Relationship to Systems Sciences (Agresti 2011)• Impact of CS2013• SIGITE 2012 kick-off• Guidance from ACM?