Each year the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services, ACM/SIGUCCS, sponsors competitions to recognize outstanding publications developed at college and university computing centers.
The competitions recognize excellence in developing useful and attractive publications and provide SIGUCCS conference participants with an opportunity to review model publications that may help them develop or enhance their own work.
Awards for the competitions were presented at the ACM SIGUCCS Fall User Services Conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 21-24, 2003.
Dr. Margaret Smith, editor, Consulting and Support Services, a unit of ITS, captured Third Place for the "Academic Computing Newsletter" at http://css.its.psu.edu/news and also captured Third Place for the "Your Guide to ITS @ Penn State" at http://css.its.psu.edu/internet.
John Carnicella, William Verity, Consulting and Support Services, a unit of ITS, captured Second Place for the PAC-ITS CD.
Christine Vucinich, Ryan Booz, Cristol Gregory, Krystal Sabol, Vicki Weidler, Teaching and Learning with Technology, a unit of ITS, captured First Place for the ITS Instructor and Instructor Assistant Internal Web Site at http://its.psu.edu/training/internal/.
Hannah Williams, Academic Services and Emerging Technologies, a unit of ITS, captured Third Place for a Graduate Education and Research Services (GEaRS) Brochure, 2002.
At the same conference the 2003 Penny Crane Award was presented to Dr. Russell S. Vaught to recognize his significant service to higher education, the computing profession, and to ACM SIGUCCS.
Background history: A special award was presented posthumously to Penny Crane at the 1999 SIGUCCS Fall Conference to honor her long time service and contributions to SIGUCCS and ACM. Since then the Penny Crane Award was established to recognize other individuals who have made significant contributions to SIGUCCS and computing in higher education.
Dr. Vaught's career has focused on information technology and research in higher education. He is a leader who has served as a mentor to many of his staff throughout his career. He is dedicated to providing high quality user services to his constituents. Russ represents the personal dedication to the profession for which the Penny Crane award was created. He is Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology at Penn State.
For further information please see http://www.acm.org/siguccs.