Auxiliary Information for the 2018 Conference at Snowbird

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Increasing Diversity in Computing is Easier Than You Think: Some Small Steps that Make a Big Difference

• Quincy Brown. 2016. Broadening Participation. ACM Inroads 7, 4 (November 2016), 46-48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3008664

Department Rankings

• GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful

Improving Faculty Recruiting in the Computing Community

1. One-sheet (2-page) handout [PDF] [Word]
2. Information on the CRA CV Database
3. 2018 Computer Science Tenure-Track Faculty Hiring Outcomes by C. Willis
4. Articles Addressing Shortage of CS Professors Across Many Institutions, B. Bizot, CRA Bulletin, May 9^th, 2018.
5. Are Ph.D. Students Losing Interest in Faculty Positions at Research Universities?, B. Tamer, Computing Research News, 30(1), January 2018.
6. Using Targeted Conferences to Recruit Women into Computer Science, C. Alvarado and E. Judson, Communications of the ACM, 57(3): 70-77, March 2014.
7. Faculty Recruitment Conference – Association of American Law Schools, https://www.aals.org/services/faculty-recruitment-services/faculty-recruitment-conference/. (Accessed January 2018).
8. The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective, American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, P. Coles et al., Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(4):187-206, Fall 2010.
9. Academic Placement Career Fair – American Marketing Association
10. The right match: America’s biggest economic conference doubles as a jobs fair, The Economist, Jan 7th 2016.
11. National Resident Matching Program.
12. D. Perlmutter, Don’t Kill the Conference Interview, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 20, 2015.

Using CRA Data to Improve Your Department and Inform Decision Making

• CRA Taulbee Benchmarking

Reading Discussion Groups
“Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II”, by Liza Mundy.
(Maybird)

“Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”, by Safiya Umoja Noble.
(Twin Peaks A)

“Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”, Consensus Study Report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018).
(Twin Peaks B)

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

How to Stop Driving Women Out of Computing — What happens in your backyard matters!

• Session slides
• Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018), National Academies
• Gender Diversity in Computer Architecture, Natalie Enright Jerger and Kim Hazelwood
• What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You,  Kathryn S. McKinley
• Statistics, we have a problem, Kristian Lum
• A member of the Theory Community Speaks out, #Metoo, Anonymous post
• Software engineer recalls impact of alleged sex assault from UC Berkeley professor James O’Brien, Anjali Shrivastava
• How we Lost the Women in Computing, Moshe Vardi
• Sexual Harassment Explains a Lot About Why Women Get Paid Less, Rebecca Greenfield and Laura Colby
• Summary and Thoughts on the Diversity Conversations in the Architecture Community

 New Models for Industrial Research in CS

• The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations