Upcoming BPC Forum on Identifying and Removing Institutional Barriers to BPC: The CIC’s 10 recommended systemic sustainable interventions and their BPC impact.
Join us for the next BPCnet.org BPC Community Forum on Friday, November 1st, at noon EST for a discussion led by Carla Brodley and Catherine Gill of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) on effective ways to overcome institutional barriers found in undergraduate computing programs.
The Center for Inclusive Computing partners with universities to identify and remove the—often unintentional—barriers that prevent students from discovering and thriving in computing education. To remove these barriers, CIC Partner Schools implement evidence-based, systemic, and sustainable interventions that don’t require ongoing funding. The CIC works in partnership with 100+ universities across the country to ensure that students of any intersectional demographic identity can discover, thrive, and persist in computing.
In this talk, the CIC will explore the most common institutional barriers found in undergraduate computing programs and the concrete actions that can be taken to remove these barriers such as handling the distribution of prior computing experience in the intro sequence, rethinking the placement of math requirements, creating interdisciplinary computing BS/BA degrees, ensuring that multi-section courses use common assessment and more. The CIC will present results for the 21 partner schools who have had 2+ years to implement changes.
We look forward to sharing this information with the BPC community and hope to receive feedback on what systemic interventions might be missing from this list.
Registration is required to attend this Zoom event. After registering with your name and email address, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link.
The live transcript will be turned on for this BPC Community Forum. If you have any accessibility needs, please reach out to bpcinfo@cra.org.
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