THE UNIVERSITY OF
NORTHERN
BRITISH COLUMBIA

COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM

Institutional Report
October 13, 2000

• Enrollment
The number of declared CS majors enrolled in Fall 2000 is 194.
• Hirings and Faculty Complement
There are now (as of September 2000) five tenured or tenure-track faculty members, not including the Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science who also teaches one CS course. There is one full-time term instructor (full-time since 1994), and this term there were three part-time instructors, two of whom had other full-time jobs within the university.

The department is currently interviewing for one more tenure-track faculty position and one sabbitical replacement term position in Computer Science.

• Task Force on Institutional Co-operation
This task force (to facilitate inter-institutional co-operation in IT in Northern BC) has disappeared from sight.
• Graduate Program
The CS program has two graduate students enrolled in the Master's of Science degree: one part-time. Rich Little, the first student to be awarded an interdisciplinary Mathematics/Computer Science degree, graduated last summer.
• Sabbaticals
Jernej Polajnar began a year-long sabbatical 1 July, 2000. Charles Brown has returned from sabbatical, and Waqar Haque intends to go on sabbatical July, 2001.
• Space concerns
UNBC is facing a severe space shortage. The University is leasing space downtown. A new laboratory building is scheduled for completion in Fall 2002, and there are plans to construct a research park building. At present approximately 150 students use one room with 16 Sun Sparc machines, and 60 upper year students use another with 12 machines.