CSAB Committee Structure
Updated January 10, 2007

Each standing committee should be chaired by a member of the Board, and most should have representation from the member societies. The committee chairs and members normally come from member societies. Committee Chairs are appointed by the CSAB President and ratified by the Board. Committee members may be added by the committee Chairs, as needed, subject to approval by the CSAB President. Each CSAB Director and Alternate Directors, except the President, will serve on at least one of the standing committees. The President will be an ex-officio member on all committees.

Terms of office are normally for three years. Committee members may be reappointed by the CSAB President and the Committee Chairs as needed, preferably in staggered terms of office to encourage continuity and the introduction of new members. A member or Chair will serve no more than two consecutive three-year terms.

CSAB Executive Committee

The CSAB Executive Committee shall consist of the current CSAB officers, the Past President of CSAB, the Executive Director of CSAB, one at-large member elected from the membership of the CSAB Boars, and the most senior CSAB appointed ABET Director. If one or more member societies of CSAB is not represented on the Executive Committee, the at-large member must be from such a society. The following are ex-officio non-voting members of the Executive Committee: the immediate past president of CSAB; the CSAB Executive Director and the most senior CSAB appointed ABET Director not on the Executive Committee because of another position. If all CSAB appointed ABET Directors are already on the Executive Committee because of another position, an alternate Director to ABET will be appointed to a one year term by the CSAB President.

The CSAB Executive Committee shall:

• Examine and formulate matters for consideration by the CSAB Board and its Committees.
• Recommend the annual budget for Board approval.
• Prepare suitable supporting material for new programs requiring additional financial support from the member organizations.
• Develop and maintain a financial model for CSAB, looking for innovative ways to improve income and control costs.
• Work with ABET and the CSAB member societies, as appropriate.
• Develop plans to enhance relationships with all constituencies.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to the CSAB Board on the admission of new members or the establishment of special relationships in the industrial or public sectors.
• Recommend possible roles for CSAB in areas outside of direct accreditation and in areas not covered currently, such as associate and master’s degrees, for-profit institutions, K-12 programs. Also, evaluate organizational involvement in parallel services internationally and providing consulting services to institutions.
• Choose new ABET Directors for CSAB as the need arises.

Strategic Planning and Assessment Committee

This committee shall consist of one Board representative from each member society, the CSAB Executive Director, the CSAB treasurer and invited outside members, as appropriate. The CSAB Vice President will act as the Chairperson of the committee and as the representative of his/her society.

1. This committee shall develop and maintain:
   • a vision statement
   • a mission statement
   • measurable objectives
   • an assessment plan including processes for
     • collecting assessment data on a regular basis
     • evaluating the data
     • documenting the data
     • distributing it to those who need to use it
     • monitoring its use toward continuous improvement
2. A designated Assessment Coordinator will coordinate CSAB’s ongoing assessment activities. The Assessment Coordinator should be a CSAB Representative Director.
3. This committee shall identify, recruit and evaluate the admission of new members, and make recommendations to the CSAB Board, and provide the CSAB Executive Committee with sufficient information to evaluate the qualifications of prospective members.
4. The committee shall develop plans and work to encourage active participation by related professional societies and business organizations and coordinate relationships with government and public sectors.

Criteria Committee

The Criteria Committee should be chaired by a member of the Board, if available. The Criteria Committee shall:

• In conjunction with appropriate societies, develop and maintain program criteria, and submit to the CSAB Board for approval.
• Coordinate with the appropriate ABET commissions’ criteria committees.
• Interact with CSAB’s ABET Directors to facilitate approval for criteria proposals.
• Provide interpretations of relevant criteria.
• Coordinate CSAB feedback on general criteria.

Training Committee

This committee should be chaired by a member of the Board, if available. It shall:

• Work with all stakeholders, including the CSAB Constituency Relations Committee, to encourage participation.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate training activities.
• Recruit, assign, and evaluate trainers.
• Cooperate with ABET staff and societies.
• Get feedback from Program Evaluators, Team Chairs and appropriate ABET Commission committees regarding training effectiveness, and use this information to improve training.
• Develop training materials.
• Create and disseminate training updates for current Program Evaluators, and coordinate with Commission training points of contact.
• Solicit and evaluate innovative ideas for improving the quality and reducing the cost of training.

Assignment Committee

This committee shall:

• Assign Program Evaluators to visits.
• Ensure Program Evaluators keep biographical data base information up to date.
• Mentor Program Evaluators, working with the appropriate commission.

Quality Assurance Committee

This committee shall:

• Evaluate Program Evaluators, working with the appropriate commission.
• Elicit feedback from Program Evaluators (post-visit) regarding improvements to criteria and training.
• Provide the Training Committee with focus areas for training improvements.
• Identify ambiguities in reports, training and criteria and pass them along, as appropriate.
• Work with other societies to improve evaluation tools.
• Develop a slate of commission nominees. Following CSAB-EC approval, the list of nominees will be sent to ABET for transmission to the appropriate commission.

Awards and Recognition Committee

The Awards and Recognition Committee will be responsible for developing an ongoing process to recognize those who have provided exceptional service to computing education and accreditation. With the board’s approval, this committee will:

• recommend candidates for CSAB Fellow Awards.
• develop other forms of recognition and honor as appropriate, and it will establish guidelines and a selection process.
• recommend the form of each type of recognition, honor, and award, and it will determine appropriate times and venues for recognizing those being recognized.

Constituency Relations Committee

This committee shall consist of one Board representative from each member society, the CSAB Executive Director, and the web master. The CSAB Chairperson shall be appointed by the CSAB President. It shall:

• Recruit Program Evaluator candidates.
• Evaluate Program Evaluator applications.
• Interact with CSAB’s member societies.
• Identify and recruit potential member societies.
• Work with constituent societies to recruit additional institutions to submit programs for accreditation.
• Develop good relationships with industry and inform them about accreditation and its value to them.
• Maintain contact via virtual community tools, with Program Evaluators and commissioners to inform them of CSAB activities and remind them of their roles and relationships with ABET, its Commissions, the constituent societies and CSAB.
• Manage CSAB web content and insure it remains relevant and current as well as making sure it represents CSAB to each of our constituencies.

Nominations Committee

The Nominations Committee shall consist of the CSAB Past President and one representative member appointed by each of the CSAB member societies. The CSAB Past President shall be the Chairperson.

The Nominations Committee will:

• Nominate a slate of officers for CSAB.
• Suggest, to the CSAB Board, candidates to the ABET Board and to other ABET committees, when requested.
• Assist the member societies in identifying qualified candidates for the appointments and/or reappointments of CSAB Representative Directors or Alternate Representative Directors. Provide feedback and guidance to the societies on particular CSAB expertise needs and the performance of their respective Representative Directors and Alternate Representative Directors.
• Work with the CSAB President and committee chairs to identify potential leaders and members of the standing and ad hoc committees, as requested.

Grants Committee

The Grants Committee shall:

• Manage the effort to secure grants from private and public sources to support CSAB’s mission.
• Coordinate the committee efforts with the Constituency Relations Committee and the Strategic Planning and Assessment Committee.

International Committee

This committee shall:

• Develop and recommend strategies for CSAB to address accreditation activities outside the United States, its territories and possessions.

Admissions Committee

This committee shall:

• Determine the number of representatives to the CSAB Board for each member society, based on their membership count of professional and student members.
• Review every five years the allocation for representation by CSAB member societies to its Board.
• Administer the admission procedure for member organizations and associate member organizations of CSAB.
  

  Applications for admission as an associate member organization shall be referred to the Admissions Committee for a report to the Board of Directors. The report shall include analysis of all information about the applicant including, but not limited to, how the potential associate member organization meets the qualifications as stated in the Constitution:

  1. The manner in which the stated objectives or purposes of the potential associate member organization can be reasonably expected to contribute effectively to the purposes of CSAB.
  2. The manner in which the on-going programs of the potential associate member organization can be reasonably expected to supplement or strengthen the programs of CSAB.
  3. The ability of the potential associate member organization to meet the financial obligations of membership.

  Applications for admission as a member organization shall be referred to the Admissions Committee for a report to the Board of Directors. The report shall include analysis of all information about the applicant including, but not limited to, how the potential member organization meets the qualifications as stated in the Constitution:

  1. The manner in which the stated objectives or purposes of the potential member organization can be reasonably expected to contribute effectively to the purposes of CASB.
  2. The manner in which the on-going programs of the potential member organization can be reasonably expected to supplement or strengthen the programs of CSAB.
  3. The number of grades of membership, the stated qualifications for membership in each grade, and the total membership in each grade of the potential member organization. The relationship between the professional qualifications of the members of the potential member organization and the accredited programs in computing.
  4. The degree to which the total membership of the potential member organization may be considered representative of a segment of the computing professions or related professions.
  5. The extent to which the potential member organization is actively engaged in the dissemination of technical knowledge.
  6. The demonstration of the capability of the members of the potential member organization to participate in the accreditation process.
  7. The number, name, and location of degree programs for which the potential member organization appropriately might have sole or major shared responsibility for representation on accreditation matters.
  8. The number of voting members.
  9. The ability of the potential member organization to meet the financial obligations of membership.

Committee Members

Executive Committee

• Murali R. Varanasi (IEEE-CS) – President | varanasi@unt.edu
• Patrick J. Walsh (ACM) – Vice President | patwalsh@us.ibm.com
• Arthur L. Price (IEEE-CS) – Treasurer | artprice@compute.org
• Patrick M. LaMalva (CSAB-ED) – Secretary | LaMalva@csab.org
• Gordon L. Bailes (ACM) – Past President | bailes@etsu.edu
• George M. Kasper (AIS) – Member at Large | GMKasper@vcu.edu
• Gerald L. Engel (IEEE-CS) – ABET Board Representative | g.engel@computer.org

Strategic Planning and Assessment Committee

• Patrick J. Walsh, Chair | patwalsh@us.ibm.com
• Gordon L. Bailes | bailes@etsu.edu
• James I. Isaac | j.isaak@ieee.org
• Neal S. Coulter | ncoulter@unf.edu
• Kenneth E. Martin | kmartin@unf.edu
• Heikki Topi | htopi@bentley.edu
• Others as appointed by chair

Criteria Committee

• Ben M. Huey, Chair | huey@asu.edu
• Kenneth E. Martin (CS) | kmartin@unf.edu
• Barbara A. Price (IT) | baprice@GeorgiaSouthern.edu
• David L. Feinstein (IS) | feinstein@cis.usouthal.edu
• Frank Young (SwE) | frank.h.young@rose-hulman.edu

Training and Mentoring Committee

• Della T. Bonnette, Chair | dtb@louisiana.edu
• Arthur L. Price, Treasurer | artprice@compute.org
• Moshen Guizani
• Richard Helps
• Leah Pietron
• Han Reichgelt
• Deana Siegler
• Bruce White
• Frank Young

Assignment Committee

• Neal S. Coulter, co-Chair | ncoulter@unf.edu
• Stephen B. Seidman, co-Chair | sseidman@uca.edu

Quality Assurance Committee

• Barbara A. Price, co-Chair | baprice@GeorgiasSouthern.edu
• Gordon L. Bailes (CS) | bailes@etsu.edu
• Della T. Bonnette (CS) | dtb@louisiana.edu
• Ray Greenlaw (IT)
• Harold C. Grossman (CS) | grossman@cs.clemson.edu
• Diane Hamilton (IS)
• Stephen Itoga (IT)
• Pamela B. Lawhead (CS)
• Yaakov L.Varol (CS)
• John C. Turchek (IS)

Constituency Relations Committee

• Patrick J. Walsh, co-Chair | patwalsh@us.im.com
• Stephen B. Seidman | sseidman@uca.edu
• George M. Kasper | GMKasper@vcu.edu
• John Impagliazzo | cscjzi@hofstra.edu
• Others as appointed by chair

Nominations Committee

• Gordon L. Bailes, Chair and past CSAB President | bailes@etsu.edu
• Stephen B. Seidman | sseidman@uca.edu
• George M. Kasper | GMKasper@vcu.edu
• Kenneth E. Martin | KMartin@unf.edu

Awards and Recognition Committee

• Gerald L. Engel, co-Chair | G.Engel@computer.org
• George M. Kasper, co-Chair | GMKasper@vcu.edu
• Neal S. Coulter, co-Chair | NCoulter@unf.edu

Grants Committee

• Bruce H. Barnes, Chair | bhbarnes@erols.com
• Gerald L. Engel | g.engel@computer.org

International Committee

• Gerald L. Engel, Chair | g.engel@computer.org
• John Impagliazzo | cscjzi@hofstra.edu
• George M. Kasper | gmkasper@vcu.edu

Admissions Commmittee

• Gordon L. Bailes, Chair | bailes@esu.edu
• George M. Kasper (AIS) | GMKasper@vcu.edu
• Gerald L. Engel (IEEE-CS) | g.engel@computer.org