"Diversity through Accessibility" - the SIGCSE 2008 Symposium
March 12-15, 2008
Portland, OR

The 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education provides a
diverse selection of technical sessions and opportunities for networking,
learning and interaction. This symposium addresses problems common among
educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs,
curricula, and courses. In addition, the symposium provides a forum for
sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching
and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction. Global and country specific
perspectives and models of computing education are also encouraged. 

Accessibility in this context applies to computer science education, and that
means approaches to learning that include everyone, putting the typically
disenfranchised (e.g., minorities, women, people with disabilities,
non-Western cultures) on equal footing with the "enfranchised." In this way,
accessible computing education results in a more complete, more diverse, and
more successful population of future computer science professionals. Themes
are all about vision, and this one is pretty grand, at least in our opinion. 

Symposium website:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/sigcse08/