Annual Faculty Activity Report

Department Computer Science Date June 1, 2011

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   Courses taught
   

ACSG 575 (4.5) – Information Ethics – Enrollment: 25

First time course offered. It was delivered as a graduate level course, but there were five undergraduate students in it as well, taking it for undergraduate credit. Assignments were adjusted for both student levels.

CMPSC 321 (4.0) / ACSG 590 – Database Theory and Design - Enrollment: 15

CMPSC 100 (0)– S-STEM Seminar – Enrollment: 15

Spring ‘11 courses

ACSG 552 (4.5) – Advanced Database - Enrollment: 18

CMPSC 100 (0) – S-STEM Seminar – Enrollment: 15

CMPSC 200 (4) – Virtual Worlds – Enrollment: 18

New preparation for me.

2. 
   No independent studies, internships or senior projects to oversee this year
   
3. 
   Advising work
   
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     Standard academic advising for about 15 Computer Science majors
     
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     S-STEM advising (NSF scholarship program) throughout the year, especially freshmen
     

4. 
   Teaching innovations, improvements and self-evaluation
   

1. 
   Publications and presentations
   

2. 
   Work in progress
   

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  As mentioned above, continued development of Privacy For Database Design, http://csmaster.sxu.edu/privacy
  

2. 
   Meetings & workshops attended
   

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  ACM SIG Governing Board Meetings, October 2010, NYC; February 2011, NYC.
  
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  ACM Education Council, Orlando, February 2011.
  
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  ACM SIGCSE Symposium, Dallas, March 2011.
  
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  CELE Technology Conference, May 2011.
  
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  IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2011 (ISTAS).
  

2. 
   Grants - No grant proposals written.
   
3. 
   Professional organizations
   

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  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  

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  Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS)
  
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  Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
  
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  ACM Committee on the status of women, ACM-W
  

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  Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area (ACCA) - Computer Science Division
  
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  IEEE / Society for the Social Implications of Technology
  

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  Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC)
  
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  Academic Alliance, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
  

6. 
   Honors – None received
   
7. 
   Other scholarly activity
   

New textbook review

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  Computer Ethics textbook, Cengage Publishers.
  

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  42nd Annual SIGCSE Symposium (Special Interest Group – Computer Science Education).
  

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  Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education (ITICSE).
  

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  Edited two online SIGCAS newsletters (September and December 2010); authored SIGCAS chair’s messages for these issues.
  

1. 
   Department of Computer Science
   

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  Director of the National Science Foundation S-STEM Scholarship program
  
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  Recruitment (working with Admissions, contacting applicants), mentoring and advising of students, working with Student Services to provide support programming, renewing awards, liaising with local businesses and Information Services to place students in internships; programming & planning (with Jean Mehta & Jean Riordan) for the monthly S-STEM Seminar
  
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    Department contact person, National Center for Women In Technology (NCWIT) Academic Alliance
    

2. 
   College of Arts and Sciences
   

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  Director, Women and Gender Studies (served third year of three year term)
  

3. 
   University
   
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     Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, (third year of 3-year term; spring semester as chair); oversaw the FAC negotiating team through negotiation of a new CBA
     

4. 
   Community
   

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  Congregation Etz Chaim of DuPage County
  

Sunday School teacher, 1/2007 - present

5. 
   Profession
   

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  Chair, Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS)
  

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  Midwest Regional Ethics Bowl judge, Harper College, November 2010.
  
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  Local Arrangements Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2011 (ISTAS), Saint Xavier, May 23-25, 2011.
  

Nothing additional to report

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  Join AP CS project – this is a National Science Foundation funded coalition to develop a new Computer Science Advanced Placement course that focuses on computing principles rather than programming. I have applied to become part of the group to offer corresponding pilot courses for which students would receive AP credit at the University level. I will teach three sections of this course (CMPSC 112) in 2011-2012. I will be attending a workshop at Purdue this month.
  

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  Continue work on the Privacy for Database Design website at csmaster.sxu.edu/privacy.
  
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  Continue reviewing activities: conferences, journals, NSF.
  

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  Director, NSF S-STEM scholarship program. Plans include accompanying students to a graduate school fair at Purdue (West Lafayette); dinner with students and their high school mentors.
  
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  Organize & deliver (with Jean Mehta) weeklong computing workshop for 20 high school girls, June 2011.
  
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  Take several female students to attend and participate in the Missouri-Kansas Regional Celebration of Women in Computing, Atlanta (October 2011) with Jean Mehta.
  
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  Represent (with Jean Mehta) our departmental membership in the NCWIT Academic Alliance.
  

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  Attend University retreat, July 2011.
  

Serve as ACM SIGCAS liaison to the ACM Education Council; contribute to the Social & Professional Ethics section of the developing ACM 2013 Computing Curriculum Guidelines.