I am especially interested in the third suggestion -- Communicating about CS in the liberal arts. Boots L N Cassel, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Computing Sciences Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova PA 19085-1699 http://csc.villanova.edu/~cassel 610 519 7341 On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Douglas Baldwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Amanda Holland-Minkley < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Since it sounds like one productive next step would be to brainstorm >> what some of the BoFs or sub-areas of interest would be, I thought I'd >> share the ones that I can think of that have come out of the conversations >> so far and Grant's survey: >> >> >> >> * Faculty hiring... >> >> >> >> * Enrollment pressures... >> >> >> >> * Communicating about CS in the liberal arts... >> >> >> >> * Curricular structures... >> >> >> >> * Curricular inclusion of soft skills and interdisciplinary connections... >> >> >> >> If you could use another person to help put together the special session >> proposal or coordinate it, I'm happy to help out. I'm also currently most >> personally engaged in the last of the four possible topics I listed above >> so if it seems like there is enough interest in the soft >> skills/interdisciplinary content piece for a BoF I'd be happy to put >> together a proposal and coordinate that. >> > > These all sound like good possibilities for BoFs. I'll guess that > connecting yourself with a specific one in public has just earned you the > job of planning it, so if you'd like to start thinking about organizing one > on soft skills and interdisciplinarity, that would be great. Other folks > might, of course, volunteer to help, and you can certainly recruit helpers > if you want. BoF proposals are due Oct. 21, so there's still lots of time > for brainstorming. > > Meanwhile, why don't I work up a special session proposal. I'll be on > vacation next week, but I think I can circulate a draft proposal early the > week after (i.e., a couple of days before they're due). I'm certainly > imagining having help moderating discussions and presenting parts of the > report, but exactly who the best people to do that would be might become > clearer as I write the proposal. I might take you up on your offer, Amanda, > and the draft might well circulate with questions of the form "would > so-and-so be willing to help with such-and-such" attached. > > Thanks for the ideas. > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the SIGCSE-LIBARTS-COMM list, click the following link: > https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1= > SIGCSE-LIBARTS-COMM&A=1 > ############################ To unsubscribe from the SIGCSE-LIBARTS-COMM list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=SIGCSE-LIBARTS-COMM&A=1