Recruiting & Retaining at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

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Recruiting & Retaining at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Valerie Barr, Union College Andrea Danyluk, Williams College Jennifer Rosato, College of St. Scholastica Gloria Townsend, DePauw University

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Recruiting & Retaining at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. Valerie Barr, Union College Andrea Danyluk, Williams College Jennifer Rosato, College of St. Scholastica Gloria Townsend, DePauw University. Overview. Advantages & disadvantages of PUIs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Recruiting & Retaining at Primarily Undergraduate

Institutions

Valerie Barr, Union College

Andrea Danyluk, Williams College

Jennifer Rosato, College of St. Scholastica

Gloria Townsend, DePauw University

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Overview

• Advantages & disadvantages of PUIs

• Description of practices at our institutions

• Resources

• Question & Answer

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PUIs award nearly 60% of all bachelor’s degrees in computer

science.

Source: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/append/c2/at02-01.pdf

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Why 60%?• small class sizes;

• close relationships among professors and students;

• no involvement of graduate students in the teaching process;

• ample office hours for students;

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Why 60%• emphasis on students' acquiring problem

solving skills and critical reasoning skills;

• building writing, speaking and listening skills across the curriculum;

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Why 60%• ample opportunities to develop leadership

skills; intellectual liveliness;

• teamwork, interdis-ciplinary study;

• innovative pedagogy such as service learning and collaborative researchexperiences.

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Classes are often taught in lab

settings – how true is this for you?

CS1 Upper-Level

CSS 25 max avg of 10

Williams 20/section max of 20

DePauw max of 30 15

Union 17 25

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Challenges

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Challenges

• Fewer faculty sharing workload

• Turnover (i.e. key faculty leaving)

• Fewer women majors to develop critical mass

– Support network, peer mentoring, recruitment of others

• Fluctuating data on retention & graduation

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College of St. Scholastica

Union CollegeDePauw University

WilliamsCollege

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Union College

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Union College• Recruiting:

– Change in overall recruitment strategies – 5 theme-based intros, 3 options of minors– Hooks to neuroscience, economics, arts– Interdisciplinarity, interdepartmental majors– Participation in Gen Ed program– Value enrollments! Marketing.– Very accessible faculty, 3/8 are women

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Union College• Retaining:

– Everything we do to recruit helps us retain– Revision of mid- and upper- level

curriculum, increased ‘relevance’– Research opportunities– Support for independent study– “You want to do it, we’ll help make it

happen”

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Williams College

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Williams College• Recruiting

– Female faculty and students at info sessions and open house events

– Female faculty in CS 1 &/or CS 2• 2 women co-teaching CS 1 => “CS is a girl thing”

• The power of a young female faculty member who students can relate to

– Introductory courses that aren’t all about programming

– Female TAs

– Women in CS events• Current students and alums

• Faculty and staff

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Williams College• Retaining

– Attention to advising– Upper level courses

• Open-ended final projects• Team projects

– Research opportunities• At Williams and away (DREU)

– Women in CS events– Monday night snacks, cool t-shirts– Grace Hopper Conference

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College of St. Scholastica

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College of St. Scholastica• Recruiting

– Variety of concentrations & double-majors– CS0 & CS1 taught by women– Integrate with adult evening program– Outreach (camps, clubs, girls scouts)– Future work: Open House for undecided

majors (70% of CSS students are women)

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College of St. Scholastica• Retaining

– 3 of 4 undergrad faculty women– Women in CIS group (social activities)– Projects with non-profit clients– Future Work – TA training

• Continuing Efforts– Strategic Plan Goal: 50/50 by 2019

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DePauw University

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DePauw UniversityRecruiting• “Leveling the CS1 Playing Field” project

• Provide T-shirts (wearable advertising) for ACM-W members

• Use ACM-W studentsto recruit and to staff lab positions(role-modeling)

– Female in-class assistants

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DePauw University• Retaining

– ACM-W Chapter

– Regional Celebration

– GHC scholarships

– Two female instructors

– REU

– CS House

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Tracking Data

School

2005 2006 2007

SizeF Total %F F Total %F F Total %F

Amherst 5 20 25% 5 13 39% 2 10 20% 1700

Swarthmore 2 11 18% 2 11 18% 2 12 17% 1400

Pomona 0 5 0% 1 9 11% 1 6 17% 1500

Carleton 1 13 8% 1 8 13% 3 18 17% 1900

Bowdoin 1 13 8% 1 6 17% 2 8 25% 1600

Middlebury 0 5 0% 1 5 20% 1 5 20% 2200

Williams 1 6 17% 1 9 11% 2 17 12% 2000

Union 1 8 13% 2 5 40% 0 6 0% 2200

Scholastica 14 56 25% 10 41 24% 4 14 29% 2000

DePauw 13 45 29% 4 33 12% 5 25 21% 2200

Gender Breakdown of Graduates

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Resources• Regional and national conferences for Women

in CS

• ACM-W scholarships for conference participation

• CRA-W’s CREU and DREU programs; and REUs in general

• NCWIT's Programs-in-a-Box

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Questions?