Supporting a Community Building Meeting with US Computing Societies

这项CEISE特别项目奖为计算机器协会提供资金，用于组织一次高级别峰会，将美国主要的计算学会聚集在一起，以解决全国范围内本科计算教育的未来。ACM教育委员会将领导这项活动。会议将集中讨论振兴本科计算机教育的合作努力。这次会议的背后是目前人们对本科计算机教育危机的看法，招生人数不断减少，本科教育坚持过时的传统模式，需要促进计算机教育领域的创新，为未来的计算机专业人员提供令人兴奋的教育途径。通过与专业学会领导人的合作和讨论，该小组计划就主要问题达成共识，确定解决当前情况的关键步骤，并就导致本科计算机教育大幅转型和振兴的一系列行动的责任达成一致。智力的优势在于努力解决影响全国范围内本科计算机教育的主要问题。参与团体、ACM教育委员会和其他参与的专业组织代表着一个强大的联盟，他们拥有计算机专业人员的经验和专业组织的服务，是计算机教育界的唯一代表，有资格承担这种规模的项目，并实施美国计算机教育转型的国家愿景。通过这些活动，计算机界应该促进对计算的更好的了解，促进相关研究，支持计算机教育的卓越，并强调计算为整个国家提供的机会的范围。更广泛的影响在于为改善全国计算机教育的全面国家战略议程奠定基础。在主要计算机组织之间制定共同的国家目标和战略可以影响所有公民的潜力和机会，从而满足国家未来对多样化的计算机专业人员群体的需求。

This CISE Special Project award provides funding to the Association for Computing Machinery for the organization of a high-level summit to bring together the main computing societies in the United States to address the future of undergraduate computing education on a national scale. The ACM Education Board is to lead the activity. The meeting will focus on the collaborative efforts to revitalize undergraduate computing education. Underlying this meeting is the current perception of a crisis in undergraduate computing education with decreasing enrollments, adherence to outdated traditional models for undergraduate education and a need to foster innovation across computing education to provide exciting educational pathways for the computing professionals of the future. Through collaboration and discussion with leaders of the professional societies the group plans to develop a shared understanding of the main issues, identify key steps to address the current situation, and develop agreement about responsibilities for a range of actions leading to a substantial transformation and revitalization of undergraduate computing education.The intellectual merit lies in the efforts to address the major issues impacting undergraduate computing education on a national scale. The participating groups, the ACM Education Board and the other participating professional organizations, represents a powerful alliance informed by experience as computing professionals and service in professional organizations as representatives of the computing education community uniquely qualified to undertake a project of this scope and to implement a national vision for transformation of computing education in the United States. Through these activities, the computing community should develop promote a better understanding of computing, promote relevant research, support excellence in computing education, and emphasize the range of opportunities available in computing to the national as a whole.The broader impacts lie in the potential to set the stage for a comprehensive national strategic agenda for improving computing education across the nation. Developing shared national goals and strategies among the major computing organizations can impact the potential and opportunities for all citizens and thus address the national need for a diverse group of computing professionals for the future.