PKAL Summer Institute 2001: Just-in-Time Computer Education for the 21st Century C. Dianne Martin EECS Department The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA dergraduate computer educaion, including computer science, information sciences and information technology, faces four major problems as it strives to prepare students for the rapidly changing IT world. They are: (1) new sets of curricula guidelines being released in CS, ClS, and IT; (2) new models of outcome based accreditation standards; (3) a severe shortage of computing faculty at all levels; and (4) rapidly increasing undergraduate enrollments. To help faculty and departments face these issues, a set of workshops was presented at the Project Kaleidoscope 2001 Summer Institute on July 25-28 at the Snowbird Resort located in the mountains just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. PKAL, as Project Kaleidoscope is called, is funded mainly by the National Science Foundation and has been conducting summer institutes for undergraduate science faculty since 1989. However, this is the first time that representatives from computing education have been invited to present a set of sessions during the series. Because this decision was made rather late and planning for this series did not get underway until late March, we
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