CCSCNE 2025
29th annual conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region
Conference Program
2026 Student Posters
April 4-5, 2026
Hosted by:
Wheaton College
Norton, MA
https://ccscne.org/2025/
You are cordially invited to participate in the Twenty Ninth 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.
PDF version of the Call for Papers: CCSCNE 2026 CFP.pdf
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 curricula
Contributions related to education from affiliated fields such as Information Systems and Computer
Engineering are also welcome.
More details on paper submissions.
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).
More details on panels, tutorials, and workshops.
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT POSTERS
Faculty and graduate students may present works in progress in either poster form, lightning talk, or
both.
More details on faculty and graduate posters.
FACULTY COHORTS
Faculty may participate in discussions at the conference with continuing conversations throughout the
year.
More details on faculty cohorts.
UNDERGRADUATE POSTERS
We invite undergraduate students to participate in a poster session and competition during the
conference. A faculty advisor must sponsor each poster.
More details on undergraduate posters.
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. More details on the programming contest.
REVIEWERS
We also invite faculty members to serve as volunteer reviewers. For information on reviewing, visit the reviewer web page (https://ccscne.org/?page=reviewing).
For any questions regarding the conference, contact conference chairs Adita Kulkarni and Jim Teresco (ne-conference-chairs@ccsc.org)