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• Expanding the Pipeline: Hack Your Way to an Undergraduate Research Group August 1, 2024
  By Brian Harrington, University of Toronto Scarborough Involving undergraduate students in research can improve their academic performance, raise their self-esteem, and make them more likely to consider graduate school. Starting an undergraduate research group, especially for a teaching-stream faculty, can feel like a daunting task that requires lots of time, energy, and money. But with […]
• Expanding the Pipeline: Will ChatGPT Expand Diversity in Computing? We don’t think so. Reasons for Concern and Paths Forward May 1, 2024
  By Lamia Youseff, Ph.D. with the help of Claude 3 Sonnet Since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been immense public interest in how AI may disrupt industries, replace some human workers and even create new jobs. Like any transformative technology, the recent rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI has sparked both […]
• Expanding Career Pipelines by Unhiding the Hidden Curriculum of University Computing Majors February 1, 2024
  by Philip Guo, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Everyone who attends college learns a formal curriculum by taking classes, but there is also a hidden curriculum just beneath the surface of their college experience. This hidden curriculum consists of the “unspoken lessons, norms, values, and perspectives that impact learning and academic performance. […]
• Expanding the Pipeline: “Regular” CS x Inclusive Design October 2, 2023
  By Rosalinda Garcia (Oregon State University), Margaret Burnett (Oregon State University), and Patricia Morreale (Kean University)  What happens if CS faculty teach inclusive design skills throughout core undergraduate CS courses? What might the outcomes of an integrated contiguous experience be? Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), we have developed a new broadening participation in […]
• Expanding the Pipeline: The CRA-WP 2023 IDEALS Workshop May 1, 2023
  The CRA-WP 2023 Grad Cohort Workshop for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Leadership Skills (IDEALS) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii March 23-25.  The workshop is part of an effort to widen the participation, access, opportunities, and experience of individuals in computing research by building and mentoring nationwide communities throughout their graduate studies. The workshop has […]
• Expanding the Research Pipeline – An update on Scaling the Early Research Scholars Program March 1, 2023
  The Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP), founded by Christine Alvarado in the Computer Science Department at UC San Diego (UCSD), provides authentic research experiences to early undergraduates over one academic year. Since its inception in 2014, the program has transformed the landscape of undergraduate research at UC San Diego by significantly broadening access to research […]
• Expanding the Pipeline: Roadmap of CISE’s Efforts to Broaden Participation in Computing Through the Years February 1, 2023
  This article presents the progress made in Broadening Participation in Computing and calls upon the entire computing community to take on the important goal of addressing underrepresentation in computing disciplines. The post Expanding the Pipeline: Roadmap of CISE’s Efforts to Broaden Participation in Computing Through the Years appeared first on CRN.
• Expanding the Pipeline: Distributed REsearch Apprenticeships for Master’s (DREAM) October 1, 2022
  The Distributed REsearch Apprenticeships for Master’s (DREAM) is a pilot NSF program being offered by a nationwide consortium of colleges and universities that have created “bridge to MS in CS” programs for students with non-CS bachelor’s degrees.  Schools in the MSCS Pathways to Computing Consortium provide a new pathway for people who studied something other […]
• Expanding the Pipeline: Addressing the distribution of prior experience in CS1 June 2, 2022
  Imagine you walk into Japanese 101 and on the first day the professor asks, “Has anyone taken Japanese before?” and everyone raises their hand but you and a handful of other students. Imagine then that your classmates not only raise their hands but respond to the professor in Japanese!  At age 18, I would have […]
• Expanding the Pipeline: The Context, Importance, and Experience of Writing Departmental BPC Plans May 1, 2022
  Efforts to increase participation from minoritized communities has been going on in earnest for over a decade. Unfortunately, we have yet to expand the group of faculty and staff engaged in these activities and have only made a marginal difference in who is studying computing. This article discusses BPC Plans as an attempt to supplement […]