About this event
Broadening Participation in Computing by Identifying and Removing Institutional Barriers, and by Creating New Pathways to the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., and the Generalization of this work to other areas of STEM
For the last two decades, professors, non-profits, philanthropists, NSF and other agencies have been working to broaden participation in computing at all levels of higher-ed. Some progress has been made, but often it is incremental and takes place in small pockets. Accelerating progress in diversifying computing requires the field to understand and remove institutional barriers at every level of higher ed and to rethink the invitation to create systemic, sustainable change. In her talk, Dr. Carla Brodley – the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University – will explore the most common institutional barriers in computing. She will discuss the concrete measures needed to address these barriers and the need to open new pathways to computing. Brodley will present the results of the CIC at five years and conclude with which of the CIC’s recommended systemic, sustainable changes can be applied to other areas of STEM.