quality, and innovation for U.S. higher education, the department maintains a clear focus on accreditation and learning outcomes. In the area of curriculum design and offerings, the department offers a B.S. Computer Science (Honors), holding full Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET accreditation, and a B.S. Computer Science (Alternative) degree. Our major was, in fact, one of the first such programs offered in New England. Dr. Bradley Kjell of the CS department has served on visiting ABET accreditation teams and currently serves as our accreditation officer. On the graduate level we offer the M.S. Computer Information Technology program, fully licensed and accredited in Connecticut since January 2000. The Computer Science, Management Information Systems, and Computer Electronics and Graphics Technology departments jointly offer this program across three schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Technology.

The Spellings Commission report also calls for increasing federal and state investment in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. In response, Dr. Stan Kurkovsky successfully led a team of faculty from the Computer Science, Physics and Mathematical Sciences to a $500,000 STEM grant award.  Dr. Neli Zlatareva will be spending next year on a Fulbright Scholarship she received to teach and do research in artificial intelligence and Web ontologies in Bulgaria and Dr. Zdravko Markov is working with faculty at Trinity College on an NSF grant to explore and develop new ways of teaching artificial intelligence. Dr. Brian O’Connell is also a member of an international team that is working on an NSF grant focusing on research in computer security and forensics.

            Please visit us online at http://www.cs.ccsu.edu or in person (Maria Sanford Hall, Room 303). We welcome and encourage your continuing feedback and suggestions.

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