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2007 Annual Report |
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SIGUCCS
About
Us
Awards
Competitions
Conferences
Information
of Interest
July
1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Submitted by Leila C. Lyons, Chair
SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group for University and College Computing Services) hosted two successful conferences during 2006-2007 and ended the year with a fund balance far in excess of the ACM requirement. Membership continues to increase due, in part, to marketing efforts and reduced registration for SIGUCCS members at conference events.
The Executive Committee members for 2006/2007 were:- Leila Lyons - Chair
- Nancy Bauer - Vice Chair/Conference Liaison
- Jen Whiting - Secretary
- Bob Haring-Smith - Treasurer
- Terry Lockard - Information Director
- Robert Paterson - immediate past-chair
- Jen Whiting - assumed additional responsibilities for vendor relations.
Several volunteers in Executive Committee-appointed positions head specific operational areas:
- Karen McRitchie assumed responsibility for coordinating tutorials/workshops for both conferences when Ethan Benatan retired from this office after the 2007 Computer Services Management Symposium;
- Jim Bostick chaired a financial and strategic planning committee;
- Greg Hanek coordinated the Communication Awards program; and
- Patti Mitch chairs a newly established committee on Membership and Marketing.
Planning
The Executive Committee holds planning meetings during each conference and monthly conference calls between these meetings. In order to develop
a coherent vision of SIGUCCS and market this to the membership and to institutions of higher education, we established separate Membership and
Marketing committees and later merged them when it became clear that there was significant overlap. Patti Mitch chairs this committee.
Under the leadership of Jen Whiting, a team addresses vendor participation in our two conferences. This effort requires significant volunteer time. While providing some financial support for the conferences, the Executive Committee continues to measure the value of this effort against ways that it could authorize use of monies in the fund balance to assist our conferences in remaining viable and serving the SIGUCCS membership.
Awards Program
The SIGUCCS Awards Programs have been in place for several years. The Penny Crane Award recognizes significant multiple contributions to
SIGUCCS from individuals over an extended period of time. The Hall of Fame awards recognize the many individuals who have contributed their
time and energies to benefit SIGUCCS. For descriptions of the awards programs please go to: www.acm.org/sigs/siguccs/awards.htm
Penny Crane Award
Jennifer Fajman was the recipient of the 2006 Penny Crane Award. For more information please go to:
http://www.siguccs.org/awards/PCraneAwards/pc2006.htm
Hall of Fame - There were 6 people inducted into the Hall of Fame. They were:
- Jayne Ashworth
- Glenda E. Moum
- John W. Hamblen (posthumously
- Marion F. Taylor
- Chris Jones
- Leland H. Williams
For a description of the recipients please go to: www.acm.org/sigs/siguccs/awards/HallFame/fame2006.htm
On January 1, 2007, Jack Esbin became Chair of the SIGUCCS Awards Selection Committee and Jerome Smith became Past Chair, following the rotation, based on the calendar year, of the committee's membership as described in http://www.siguccs.org/awards/committee.htm. Two new members, Jennifer Fajman and Linda Downing, replaced Kathy Mayberry and Phil Isensee, who retired from the committee at the end of 2006.
2006 Communications Awards
As we have done for many years, we held our Communications Awards competition in conjunction with the Fall
Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A description of these awards and the 2006 winners can be found at: www.acm.org/sigs/siguccs/competit.htm Judging this competition is a daunting task, and is ably led by Greg Hanek who oversees the Communications Awards competition from year-to-year. The Communications Awards Committee is formed each year from the previous year's winners.
Conferences
The thirty-fourth Fall Conference was held November 5 to 8, 2006, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The theme was Expanding the Boundaries. A
total of 399 people attended the conference. Proceedings were made available in CD-ROM format. A total of 109 abstracts were submitted for
the program of which 94 were accepted for a varied program of technical presentations, panels, and poster sessions. The conference had a surplus
of approximately $32,000.
Following the practice established for the past several years of moving the conference to new locations, the thirty-fourth spring Computer Services Management Symposium (CSMS) was held from March 25 to 27, 2007, in Savannah, GA. The theme was: Garden of Innovations. A total of 109 people attended the conference. The program included three plenary sessions with invited speakers, facilitated discussion sessions and birds-of-a-feather sessions. The conference received many favorable comments, particularly for the opportunities that it provided for networking for the attendees. The conference had a deficit of less than $1000. The SIGUCCS Board has, over the past year, discussed ways to raise awareness of this conference in the higher education information technology community. We voted to change the name to "SIGUCCS Management Symposium" to help marketing efforts.
Future conferences include the Fall Conference to be held in Orlando Florida from October 7 to 10, 2007, and the SIGUCCS Management Symposium in Tucson, AZ, April 6 to 8, 2008.
Financial and Membership Issues
(Note: see SIG Services section in the annual report for SIGUCCS financial and membership data.) We continue to maintain a healthy fund balance, thanks in a large part
to the success of our Fall conferences. At the end of May 2007 our fund balance was $346,629, almost $200,000 more than ACM requires. At the
same time, membership was 607, a 5% increase from the previous year.
Comments and contributions may be sent to the Information Director at infodir_SIGUCCS@acm.org