Florence Appel - Professional Activities 

• Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges (CCSC - formerly Computing Consortium for Small Colleges)

• Student Submissions Chair, Eleventh Annual Midwest Conference, Kalamazoo, October 2004.
• Student Submissions Co-Chair, Tenth Annual Midwest Conference, Denison University, October 2003.
  
• Chairperson, Ninth Annual Midwest Conference, Indiana Wesleyan University, September 2002.
• Associate Chairperson, Eighth Annual Midwest Conference, Olivet-Nazarene University, September 2001.
• Papers Chairperson, Sixth Annual Midwest Conference, Franklin College, September 1999.
• Papers Chairperson, Fifth Annual Midwest Conference, Spring Arbor College, September 1998.
• Speakers Chairperson, Fourth Annual Midwwest Conference, Dominican University, September 1997.
• Paper reviewer, 1996 - present.
  

• Associated Colleges in the Chicago Area (ACCA)
• Chairperson, Computer Science Division, Academic year 2003-2004.
  
• Secretary, Computer Science Division, Academic year 2002-2003.
• Faculty judge, Student Computer Programming Competition, Saint Xavier University, 1998.
• Lecture series (Reliability) co-ordinator, Computer Science Division, Fall 1998.
• Chairperson, Computer Science Division, Academic year 1998-1999.
• Faculty judge, Student Computer Programming Competition, Olivet Nazarene University, 1997.
• Secretary, Computer Science Division, Academic year 1997-1998.
• Lecture series (Distributed Computing) co-ordinator, Computer Science Division, Fall 1994.
• Participant in annual dinner meeting, 1989-present.
  

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education
• Paper reviewer for annual meeting - every year since 1996.
• Special Interest Group - Computers and Society
• Chair, June 2005 - present
  

• American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
• Member since 1988.

• American Association of Higher Education (AAHE)
• Member, 1997-2001.
  

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Member, Ethics Work Group,1998-present.
  
• Member since 1987.

• Saint Xavier University Committees
• University Rank and Tenure Committee (elected to 3-year term starting August 2003).
• Chair, August 2005-August 2006
  
• Co-Chair, August 2004-August 2005
  
• University Graduate Council, 2001-2002.
  
• Arts and Sciences Chairs Council , 2000-2003.
• Honors Faculty, 1999-present.
  
• Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR)
• Founding member, July 1997.
• Chair, 1997-2000.
  
• University Curriculum Committee (elected), 1997-1999. 
• Technology Task Force, presidential appointment, 1996-1999.
• Chair (elected), Academic Subcommittee.
  
• Associated Colleges of Illinois/Ameritech grant implementation committee, Saint Xavier University representative, 1996-1998.
  
• Internet Advisory Committee, 1996-1997.
• Technology Awareness Committee, 1996-1997.
• Student Mathematics and Computer Science Association (faculty advisor), 1994-1999.
• Core Implementation Committee (elected), 1995-1996 (approx.) 
• Faculty Senate (elected), 1987-1988. 

• Professional Development Workshops attended
• Service Learning Workshop, Chicago Area Faculty Development Network, Northeastern Illinois Univeristy, October 2003.
  
• Service Learning, Center for Educational Practice, Saint Xavier University, October 2004
  
• .NET Workshop, Lake Forest College, June 2003.
• Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshop, Illinois Institue of Technology, June 2003.
• Grant-Writing Workshop, Center for Educational Practice, Saint Xavier University, May 2002.
  
• Linux Administration Workshop, Rockhurst University, July 2002.
• ACM 2001 Curriculum Guidelines, ACCA CS FAculty Development Meeting, Olivet Nazarene University, April 2002.
  
• Developing OnLine Computer Ethics (DOLCE) Workshop, College of the Mines, Golden, Colorado, June 2000.
• Introduction to the Java Programming Language, ACCA CS Faculty Development Meeting, Wheaton College, May 2000.
• Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable Summer Institute, Phoenix, AZ, July 1997.

• Conferences attended - partial listing (see Presentations and Papers for details on participation)
• Tenth Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC-MW), Denison University, Granville, Ohio, September 2003.
• Ninth Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC-MW), Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, September 2002.
• Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area (ACCA), Benedictine University, October 2002.
• 34th Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group – Computer Science Education), Reno, Nevada, February 2003.
• CCSC –MW conference planning meeting:  October 2002.
• NSF Networking Curriculum Conference, ACM-SIGCOMM, Pittsburgh, PA, August 20, 2002.
• Eighth Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC-MW), Olivet-Nazarene University, Kankakee, IL September 2001.
• 33rd Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group – Computer Science Education), Covington, KY, February 2002.
• CCSC–MW conference planning meetings:  October 2001 and May 2002.
• Fifth Annual Conference on Ethics & Technology, Loyola University, July 2000.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, October 2000.
• Seventh Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, September 2000.
• 32nd Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group – Computer Science Education), Charlotte, NC, February 2001.
• Sixth Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Franklin College, Franklin, IN, September 1999.  
• Fifth Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, Michigan, September 1998.
• Midwest Computer Conference, Benedictine University, March 1999.
• Second Annual Conference on Ethics & Technology, Loyola University, Chicago, June 1997.
• 28th Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education), San Jose, CA, February 1997.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Annual Meeting, University of Illinois-Chicago, October 1996.
• Third Annual Midwest Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, September 1996.
• 26th Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education), Philapdelphia, PA, February 1995.
  
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Annual Meeting, Stanford University, October 1990.
• Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group – Computer Science Education), Louisville, KY, February 1989.
• Annual SIGCSE Meeting (Special Interest Group - Computer Science Education), Washington, D. C., February 1988.
  
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Annual Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1987.
  

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