Cara Tang, Ph.D.

Initiatives

Initiatives I am involved in.

Chair, ACM2Y
A group currently being formed within ACM for those interested in computing education in two-year programs, such as associate degree programs at community colleges and similar programs around the world.

Member and Past Chair, ACM Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges (CCECC)
Work to advance computing education at associate-degree granting colleges and similar post-secondary institutions throughout the world.
Website: ccecc.acm.org

Member, ACM Education Board
ACM education activity is organized into two entities: the Education Board and the Education Advisory Committee (EAC). The Board wields the final executive and decision-making power to facilitate the work of the Education Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is a task-force-based, networking-oriented environment whose aim is to promote ACM's educational mission to as wide a range of constituencies as possible: universities, community colleges, high schools, corporations, and the U.S. government.
Website: www.acm.org/education/education-governance

Co-Chair, National Cybersecurity Curriculum Task Force (funded by NSA)
Build high-quality, high-impact cybersecurity curriculum for the nation
Website: cyberedtaskforce.org

Security Ambassador, NSF-funded Security Injections @ Towson University Project
Advocate for the inclusion of security in computing courses and hold workshops training faculty on the use of security injections modules in their courses.
Website: towson.edu/securityinjections

Former Initiatives

Co-Chair, ACM StAC (Standardizing ACM Curriculum) Task Force
Launched by the ACM Educatio Board, and co-chaired with Mihaela Sabin, the mission of this task force is to develop standards and recommendations for ACM curriculum projects.

Core Team Member, ABET 2YCy Project
Establish ABET accreditation for two-year degrees in cybersecurity.

Lead Instructor, Summer 2016 - 2018, SPLASH: Secure Programming Logic Aimed at Students in High School
SPLASH is an introductory programming logic course that prepares students to begin programming in any language. Offered through Towson University, the program is open to high school girls.
Website: cis1.towson.edu/~cyber4all/index.php/splash_home/

Member, IT2017 Task Group
The IT2017 Task Group was formed by the ACM Education Board with the charge of updating the joint ACM and IEEE Computer Society Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology, known as IT2008. The revised document, called IT2017, was published in December 2017.
Website: it2017.acm.org