Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ilmi Yoon, San Francisco State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

attracts large numbers of women, a acquired is continually accelerating and yet this data issignificant number of students from UR groups, and has useless without someone to process and analyze it.compelling needs for CS technology. The interdisciplinary In addition to suffering from a dearth of interestedprogram is training the next generation of innovators in students, the field of CS suffers from a lack of diversity inthe biological sciences who will be prepared to cross its workforce. In 2014, only 18% of bachelor degrees in CSdisciplinary boundaries. The program consists of the were award to women, only 7% to African Americans, andfollowing: (1) computer