Introduction
The CSAB Fellow designation may be awarded annually by the CSAB Board of Directors in recognition of individuals who have given sustained, quality service to the computing profession and to computing education through the activities of CSAB.
The CSAB Fellow Committee is responsible for evaluating all nominations and for recommending a maximum of five CSAB Fellow candidates to the CSAB Board of Directors. Successful nominees (and their nominators) are informed of their selection in September and receive their Fellow pins at an awards ceremony held at an appropriate venue, usually the fall meeting of the CSAB Board of Directors.
The Pat Walsh Memorial Award honors a CSAB volunteer whose rare commitment and enduring impact has made CSAB a better organization. For this reason, a Pat Walsh Award recipient may not be chosen every year, but only when the discernible influence of the individual warrants singular recognition. Their achievements typically are not year-to-year; they span years and have shaped the course of our work. The Pat Walsh Memorial Award is CSAB’s highest honor and the contributions of its recipients define our organization.
The CSAB Fellow Committee also is responsible for evaluating all nominations and for recommending at most one Pat Walsh Memorial Award candidate to the CSAB Board of Directors. A successful nominee (and their nominator) is informed of their selection in September and receive their Pat Walsh Memorial Award at an awards ceremony held at an appropriate venue, usually the fall meeting of the CSAB Board of Directors.
Nomination Deadline Date
May 31
Nominations Process for both the CSAB Fellow and for the Pat Walsh Memorial Award
- Nominations
- Anyone, including members of the CSAB Fellows Committee, may submit a nomination.
- The nomination takes the form of a one page letter addressing the criteria published below. Additional documents may be attached as appropriate.
- Nominations may be submitted to the CSAB Executive Director at csab@csab.org, or directly to a member of the CSAB Fellows Committee.
- Review by the CSAB Fellows Committee
- Review of nominations by the CSAB Fellows Committee begins June 1 of each year.
- Nominations received after May 31 are considered the following year.
- The CSAB Fellows Committee makes recommendations to the CSAB Board of Directors.
- Final decisions
- Final decisions are made by the voting members of the CSAB Board, and are based on the CSAB Fellows Committee recommendations.
- CSAB makes the determination as to the time, place, and content of the awards.
Criteria for CSAB Fellow
Recipients of the CSAB Fellow Award should be considered outstanding contributors to the computing profession and to computing education. To this end, any of the following criteria uniquely or in combination will be used in the selection process:
- substantive contributions to CSAB including, but not limited to: improvement of the accreditation process; creative work at the interfaces between CSAB and its constituent societies; other accreditation agencies, universities, institutes, industry, government, and the public; or long-range leadership that positively affects computing education;
- formal involvement in computing accreditation as a program evaluator, commission member, committee member, and/or representative director for a total of at least five years;
- contributions to the criteria, policies, and/or procedures related to accreditation, whether through CSAB, another accreditation entity with which CSAB has a formal relationship, or through participating society activity;
- exemplary service to CSAB in a manner not described above.
Truly outstanding contributions in one of the areas listed may offset less significant contributions in others. Except in unusual circumstances, recognition is limited to currently active individuals, or not later than three years after an individual’s most recent formal CSAB involvement.
Criteria for Pat Walsh Memorial Award
Recipients of the Pat Walsh Memorial Award should be considered outstanding contributors to the computing profession and to computing education. To this end, any of the following criteria uniquely or in combination will be used in the selection process:
- extraordinary contributions to CSAB including, but not limited to: improvement of the accreditation process; creative work at the interfaces between CSAB and its constituent societies; other accreditation agencies, universities, institutes, industry, government, and the public; or long-range leadership that positively affects computing education;
- formal involvement in computing accreditation as a program evaluator, commission member, committee member, and/or representative director that span many years;
- extraordinary contributions to the criteria, policies, and/or procedures related to accreditation through CSAB involvement;
- rare commitment and enduring impact has made CSAB a better organization;
- especially exemplary service to CSAB in a manner not described above.
Truly outstanding contributions in one of the areas listed may offset less significant contributions in others.
Resubmission of Nomination
The CSAB Fellow Committee will reconsider the case of a candidate who was not selected the year immediately following first submission, provided the nominator submits a letter to CSAB Headquarters requesting reconsideration and updating the nomination with new information. The new information should be no longer than one letter-size page. The nominator may choose the alternate option of submitting a completely new nomination with references.