Announcement
CCSNE 2026 will be hosted by Wheaton College in Norton, MA on April 4-5, 2026
You are cordially invited to participate in the Thirtieth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference.
We invite proposals for papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, faculty and graduate student posters and/or lightning talks, and undergraduate posters.
All submissions are reviewed, and paper reviews are double anonymous. The proceedings of the conference are published as an issue of the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges and indexed in the
ACM Digital Library.
For more details, see the Conference Program, Call for Papers,
and the 2025 Student Posters.
Important Dates
| EasyChair Submission system opens | September 16, 2025 |
| Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop submissions due | December 13, 2025 |
| Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop notifications | January 26, 2026 |
| Faculty and Graduate Student Poster, and Lightning Talk submissions due | February 2, 2026 |
| Faculty and Graduate Student Poster, and Lightning Talk notifications | February 16, 2026 |
| Undergraduate Student Poster abstracts due | February 23, 2026 |
| Undergraduate Student Poster notifications | March 10, 2026 |
| Programming Contest team reservation deadline | March 17, 2026 |
| Early registration deadline | March 23, 2026 |
| Conference Date | April 4-5, 2026 |
Paper Submissions
Papers presented at the conference address topics in computer science education. Appropriate areas include:
- Computer science education: curriculum issues, course development issues, course content issues
- Advanced topics in the computer science curriculum such as: object-oriented programming and design, networking, parallel processing, etc.
- Using information technology in the classroom
- Innovative ways to teach first year computing
- Grants and the small college
- Computing courses for non-majors
- Ethics and computing
- Student research
- K-12 computing curriculam
Contributions related to education from affiliated fields such as Information Systems and Computer Engineering are also welcome.
Panels, Tutorials and Workshops
The conference supports faculty presentation of panels (multiple faculty with a variety of viewpoints or experience), tutorials (instruction by a faculty expert), and workshops (more in-depth instruction by a faculty expert).
Faculty and Graduate Student Posters
Faculty and graduate students may present works in progress in either poster form, lightning talk, or both.
Faculty Cohorts
Faculty may participate in discussions at the conference with continuing conversations throughout the year.
Undergraduate Posters
We invite undergraduate students to participate in a poster session and competition during the conference. A faculty advisor must sponsor each poster.
Programming Contest
We will hold a pre-conference programming contest for undergraduate students. Each team may have up to three students from a college or university.
Reviewers
We also invite faculty members to serve as volunteer reviewers.
For any questions regarding the conference, contact conference chairs Adita Kulkarni and Jim Teresco.