LACS History

The Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium is an organization of 16 computer scientists from small quality liberal arts schools. Initially funded by a grant from the Sloan Foundation, the group's first major product was the 1986 paper, A Model Curriculum for a Liberal Arts Degree in Computer Science, by Norman Gibbs and Allen Tucker (Communications of the ACM, March 1986, pp. 202-210). Subsequent meetings and discussions have led to a range of papers and presentations, covering such topics as service courses, approaches to laboratories, experiments involving a breadth-first emphasis in the first courses, and goals for the first two years of undergraduate computer science.