Conference Session

Computing Track - Technical Session II

Collection

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

Authors

Gretchen Achenbach, University of Virginia; Lecia Jane Barker, University of Colorado; Leisa D. Thompson, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Computing, Diversity

students establish personal contact through phone calls, email, or mail. Introductory CSclasses and classes for non-majors provide an opportunity to reach undecided students who arealready enrolled at the institution. Introductory classes should be designed to encourage, notdiscourage, students’ interest in computing, and faculty can explicitly encourage promisingstudents to consider a computing major.Effective messaging is vital for recruiting. Focus on broadly appealing aspects of computing suchas collaboration and application to real-world, socially relevant problems [4], [5], [6], and avoidperpetuating stereotypes of computing that are off-putting or lead women to believe they won’t fitin [7], [8]. For marketing materials and websites, choose