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Title | ||
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Four Models for Including Community Colleges in Broadening Participation: A Call to Action |
Abstract | ||
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While computer science (CS) jobs are growing rapidly, universities are not producing enough CS graduates to fill a projected shortage of almost a million workers by 2020 [1]. To add to this problem, there is a striking lack of diversity in the graduates of CS programs nationwide [2]. Of the degrees awarded, the overwhelming number - 80% - were awarded to males, while only 5% went to African-Americans, 18% to Asians, and 9% to Hispanics [3, 2]. Bringing community colleges (CCs) into the fold will enable us to confront this projected workforce shortage [2]. More importantly, it will enable us to diversify one of the most important fields of our time, computer and information sciences. Over half of community college (CC) students are non- white, and more than half of all Hispanic and Black undergraduates start at community college [4].
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1145/3287324.3287338 | Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
broadening participation, community college, degree pathways, diversity, minorities, women | Medical education,Community college,Workforce,Computer science,Information science,Knowledge management,Call to action,Economic shortage | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-5890-3 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Amardeep Kahlon | 1 | 1 | 3.42 |
| Deborah Boisvert | 2 | 1 | 2.41 |
| Louise Ann Lyon | 3 | 4 | 5.58 |
| Melanie Williamson | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Wendy M. DuBow | 5 | 16 | 7.29 |