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CIS Professor Receives Lifetime-Service Recognition Award
 Dr. Don Bailes, of the Computer and Information Sciences Department, was recently named a Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) Fellow at the annual meeting of ABET Society in Washington DC, in July 2006. This award is the highest honor that CSAB gives, and it is given for lifetime service to improving computing education in the US and to long and distinguished service in computing accreditation.
ABET, the original accreditation organization for engineering and technology, created the additional body named CSAB in the mid 1980s. CSAB has become a member society of ABET, and its central purpose is the accreditation of computing programs. The Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB) is sponsored by three major professional computing societies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society, and the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
The CSAB Fellow award that Dr. Bailes received in July is the highest honor CSAB gives for it outstanding contributing members and it was awarded in the presence of the Executive Director of CSAB along with its officers and ABET Board members. Dr. Bailes has a long history with ABET society: he started working in accreditation in 1986 and has served on the Executive Committees of the Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC) and later on ABET's Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of CSAB, where he served first as Vice-President and furthermore two terms as a President, a position which he currently holds.
According to Dr. Bailes, his greatest professional reward for having been named CSAB Fellow is the "recognition by the organization and the peers across the United States." He also takes advantage of his position as an executive member of the CSAB by helping the Computer Science Department at ETSU. Besides teaching programming courses for the undergraduate students, this semester Dr. Bailes will facilitate a review of the roughly 300 undergraduate students, by the CSAB Society. Also, as a different kind of support for the Department, Dr. Bailes says that: "the experience of being involved in the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board has allowed me to give better advice to faculty" within the Computer and Information Sciences Department, regarding this constantly developing field.
—Article by Monica Nastase of the Emerging Technology Center (ETC)
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