1. SIGITE Update Barry Lunt (John Impagliazzo)

2. SIGITE – IT Education Financially stable (about $73,000 in account) Membership relatively stable (about 400) 2014 conference very successful –Collocated with RIIT –125 attendees –42% acceptance rate (44 papers accepted) Future conferences well along –2015 in Chicago, hosted by DePaul –2016 in Boston, hosted by U Mass-Boston –2017 in Rochester, NY, hosted by RIT More sponsors, same # of attendees, reasonable acceptance rate

3. GOALS (1) Continue strong conferences (papers, attendees) Strong core of participants Enthusiastic host volunteers IT Chairs Meeting Encouraging IT Research Best Paper Award at each conference (student, other)

4. GOALS (2) Identification of IT programs –Completed 2012 (results posted at http://www.et.byu.edu/~luntb/SIGITE/index.html) http://www.et.byu.edu/~luntb/SIGITE/index.html –Graduate programs in IT also completed (2013) results posted at same website –Profile of IT professors completed 2014. Spoiler: Bachelor’s: CS (14.2%), Math (9.3%), EE (6.6%) Master’s: CS (25.9%), MBA (10.5%), Math (4.6%), EE (3.1%) Doctoral: CS (28.5%), CSEng (2.0%), EE (2.0%), Isys (2.0%)

5. Current SIGITE Work Encourage IT Research –Identify –Define –Promote IT 2017 Revision underway –Several Executive Committee (5 members) meetings held (phone) –Some full committee (12 members) meetings held (phone & F2F) –Working Group paper done at ITiCSE (Vilnius, Lithuania; July 2015)