Colloquium Details
CIS Gender and Diversity Forum
| Author: | University of Oregon |
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| Date: | November 06, 2003 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Abstract
Open to all members of the department (and others interested)
Many CS departments are taking a serious look at issues of gender and diversity. CMU, for example, was able in a relatively short time to change the makeup of their undergraduate population from 7% to 40% female (although it has now dropped back to 31%).
How did they do that? Can we adopt any of their techniques? Do we need to do more than we're already doing?
Joanne Cohoon's talk last spring sparked an interest among some of our students and faculty and to follow up on that interest, we'll hold a "Gender and Diversity Forum" this fall. Undergrads, graduate students, and faculty will come together for a discussion of the issues. The materials produced by CMU offer a good starting point. Fisher & Margolis have produced a very readable book (Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 0262133989) and a number of papers on the topic. Copies of the book and some of the papers can be borrowed from the main office. The papers are all available electronically at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~gendergap/.
Please look through these materials, offer some others that you may know of, and PLAN TO PARTICIPATE!!!!
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