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Computing Opportunities for Students of Color

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Gloria Townsend,

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In fall 2018, the authors established a new student organization at DePauw University to address the severe underrepresentation of students of color (SoC) in computing. The organization, Computing Opportunities for Students of Color (COSOC), aims to create a community for SoC and to establish a sense of belonging through role modeling, mentoring, tutoring, and a series of academic and community events. This poster describes the need for such an organization, goals and objectives, pilot study, main components of COSOC, positive preliminary impact on SoC (including enrollment data), and additional planned assessment. Finally, the poster lists future plans for COSOC.

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Booth KEikey ESanchez JFigueroa JFalana A(2020)Expanding the REU Model Within an iSchool Context: Exploring iConference’s Potential Role in Addressing UnderrepresentationSustainable Digital Communities10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_40(497-510)Online publication date: 19-Mar-2020
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Computing Opportunities for Students of Color
1. Social and professional topics
  1. User characteristics
    1. Race and ethnicity

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ITiCSE '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

July 2019

583 pages

ISBN:9781450368957

DOI:10.1145/3304221

General Chairs:
Bruce Scharlau
University of Aberdeen, UK
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Roger McDermott
Robert Gordon University, UK
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Program Chairs:
Arnold Pears
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Mihaela Sabin
University of New Hampshire, USA

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DePauw University
Independent Colleges of Indiana

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ITiCSE '19: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

July 15 - 17, 2019

Aberdeen, Scotland Uk

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Alexander RTownsend GStewart KJohnson A(2023)Being Able to See Yourself and Know You Can Get There: Creating Computing Opportunities for Students of Color2023 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT)10.1109/RESPECT60069.2023.00024(82-86)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/RESPECT60069.2023.00024
Booth KEikey ESanchez JFigueroa JFalana A(2020)Expanding the REU Model Within an iSchool Context: Exploring iConference’s Potential Role in Addressing UnderrepresentationSustainable Digital Communities10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_40(497-510)Online publication date: 19-Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_40

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