Professional Societies

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Professional Societies

• Mark Guzdial
• Professor, Georgia Tech
• Vice-Chair, ACM Education Board

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Story

• The Rising above the Gathering Storm
  report,and composing a professional societies
  response.
• What do you want from your professional
  societies?
• What societies need to be in this conversation?
• What do other professional societies do for their
  disciplines?

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RAGS Report (2007)

• Findings Having reviewed trends in the United
  States and abroad, the committee is deeply
  concerned that the scientific and technological
  building blocks critical to our economic
  leadership are eroding at a time when many other
  nations are gathering strength.

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RAGS Report

• RECOMMENDATION A Increase Americas talent pool
  by vastly improving K12 science and mathematics
  education.
• RECOMMENDATION C Make the United States the most
  attractive setting in which to study and perform
  research so that we can develop, recruit, and
  retain the best and brightest students,
  scientists, and engineers from within the United
  States and throughout the world.

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Composing a Computing Response

• Spring 2008 meeting of representatives of
  professional societies.
• What are we doing now?
• What should we be doing?
• Can we come up with a consensus view?
• Can we come up with a consensus strategy?
• Organized by ACM Education BoardPlanning
  Committee Joe Urban, Jane Prey, Heikki Topi,
  Mark Guzdial.Funded (and instigated) by Harriet
  Taylor.

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Example Organizations

• ACM Education Board
• IEEE Computer Society
• AIS Association for Information Systems
• CRA, CRA-e
• ABET / CSAB
• Anita Borg Institute
• National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT)
• CSTA
• The Computing Technology Industry Association
• The Entertainment Software Association

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2. How else can we use our professional societies?

• Using professional societies to speak for the
  discipline.
• Who else needs to be part of the CPATH community
  conversation?
• ABET?
• Others?

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How other disciplines use their professional
organizations

• American Association of Physics Teachers
• 15M over last 10 years.Example Enhancing STEM
  Student Learning through Faculty Development
  Workshops for New Physics and Astronomy Faculty
  (471K, CCLI Phase 3)ComPADRE Pathway for
  Physics and Astronomy Education (2.8M)12,000
  members

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How other disciplines use their professional
organizations

• American Physical Society
• 8M over last 10 years.Example PhysTECH Noyce
  Scholars (750K)46,000 members

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How other disciplines use their professional
organizations

• American Chemical Society
• 8.7M in last 10 years.Example ChemEd Digital
  Library An NSDL Pathway for Chemical Sciences
  Education (460K)160,000 members

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How other disciplines use their professional
organizations

• Mathematical Association of America
• 15M in last 10 years.Example Professional
  Enhancement Program (PREP) (1.1M, CCLI-Phase
  3)25,000 members

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ACM

• Slightly less than 2M in NSF awards (more than
  1M to CSTA)92,000 members

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Discussion

• What should we be sure to address in our response
  to RAGS?Who (different) should be invited?
• Do you want ACM (or IEEE CS, or ABET) to organize
  computing community efforts?In what areas? To do
  what?

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