ACM Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges
Current Membership & History
CCECC MEMBERS
Senior Professor of Computer Science
Union County College, Cranford, NJ
Vice President for Information Technology
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director, BATEC Center for IT
University College, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Robert Deadman, Asst Vice-President of Business, Computing Technology and Logistics
Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, IN
Becky Grasser, Professor, Information Technology & Computer Science
Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH
Sierra Hampton, Manager of Exam Development
Citrix Systems, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Margaret Leary, Professor, Information Technology
Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA
Dan Myers, Academic Programs Manager
Citrix Systems, Inc., Castle Pines, CO
Lance Perez, Professor, Electrical Engineering
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Michael Qaissaunee, Associate Professor, Engineering & Technology
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
Anita Verno, Associate Professor, Information Technology
Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
Jason Wertz, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
Kim Yohannan, Academic Alliance Manager
EMC Corporation, Franklin, MA
CCECC MEMBERS EMERITI
Dick Austing
Joyce Currie Little
John Impagliazzo
Karl Klee
CCECC HISTORY
Three people got together one evening during the SIGCSE symposium in Cincinnati in 1986, and the conversation among Dick Austing, John Impagliazzo and Joyce Currie Little centered on the next phase of action to take in association with the continuing emergence of two-year colleges as a factor in the higher education landscape. You see, for nearly a decade a small but visionary group had pursued this matter by way of sessions and workshops at SIGCSE symposia, even formulating and publishing two initial sets of guidelines via funding from SIGCSE. Determined to continue acting on their insights, the group now organized as a task force chaired by Joyce Currie Little, and was awarded funding support from the ACM Optional Contribution Fund. This seed money successfully launched the second decade of activity, and enabled the group to refine and pursue their thoughts, which came to focus on the computing curricula and associated matters unique to the two-year college setting. To this day, this vision is the tenet of the Committee’s work.
Significant funding by the ACM SIG Board to the ad-hoc Two-Year College Education Committee soon supported this mission. Karl Klee and Helene Chlopan now joined the original group of three. John Impagliazzo chaired the Committee, which had the special purpose of producing a comprehensive set of curriculum guidelines. The Committee created the Two-Year College Computing Curricula Task Force, with the five members of the Committee constituting its Task Force Steering Committee. This Task Force created a far-reaching, forward-thinking, and extensive set of curricular materials. For the first time then, faculty and administrators in associate-degree granting institutions had computing curricula guidelines specific to their unique environment; the ACM Education Board produced and endorsed this effort.
In 1991, the Education Board, chaired by Joe Turner, chartered the Two-Year College Education Committee as a standing committee. Since John Impagliazzo was not a member of a two-year college, he relinquished his position as committee chair and Karl Klee became its new leader concurrent with the Committee’s new stature. The Committee began to pursue a breadth of activities in service to its mission, engaging many members of its constituency in a variety of initiatives. This established what would become a well-deserved reputation as one of the most prolific units of the Education Board. In 2011 the "Two-Year College Education Commitee" revised its name to the "Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges".
Through the years the Committee members have benefited from and appreciated the ongoing support of the Education Board, their many colleagues in SIGCSE, the ACM Headquarters staff and leadership, and of course the many two-year college faculty and administrators who constitute a vital and vibrant segment of higher education.
Across the years, the Committee membership has evolved: Helene Chlopan leaves (1993); Bob Campbell joins (1993); John Impagliazzo leaves (1996); Clare Smith serves a six-month term (1996); Fay Cover joins (1996); Joyce Currie Little leaves (1999); Elizabeth Hawthorne joins (2000); Dick Austing leaves (2001); Fay Cover leaves (2005); Anita Wright joins (2007); Karl Klee leaves (2010); and Anita Wright leaves (2011).
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