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Stay Rates for S&E Doctorates Level Off


I’m still on vacation, but CRA blogging continues over at the CRA Bulletin, where Jay Vegso has a piece on some new analysis on the “stay rates” of foreign US-degree recipients. One of the concerns surrounding the computing research community’s contribution to U.S. competitiveness is the potential that an increasing percentage of the half of […]

Interest in CS/CE Continues to Drop


On the CRA Bulletin blog, Jay Vegso has the latest data from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA on the continuing decline in interest in computer science and computer engineering among freshman. He’s even got a (not-so) pretty chart.

Chronicle of Higher Ed to Run Colloquy About Women in Computer Science


Ok, we’re back from our extended holiday hiatus. We’ll be catching up throughout the next day or so, but I thought I’d first post a quick link to this interesting Chronicle of Higher Education Colloquy. It’s entitled “The Computer Science Clubhouse”: Only 17 percent of undergraduate computer-science degrees were awarded to women in 2004, according […]

Boston Globe: In computer science, a growing gender gap


The Boston Globe has a great, fairly in-depth piece today on the declining interest of women in computer science. Reporter Marcella Bobardieri writes: Born in contemporary times, free of the male-dominated legacy common to other sciences and engineering, computer science could have become a model for gender equality. In the early 1980s, it had one […]

Foreign Enrollments in CS Plunge


This is why we’re concerned with proposed rules that threaten to make the research environment in the U.S. even more hostile to foreign students (from our sister blog, the CRA Bulletin): Foreign Enrollments in CIS drop by a Third The number of international students enrolled in Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at all degree levels […]

Where the Jobs are and Students aren’t


The Globe and Mail has an interesting article today and the disconnect between the perception of the computing job market (bad) and the reality (good). David Kellam can do but he’s opting to teach. He graduated from Queen’s University last year with a degree in computing. But he’s turning away from the tech sector as […]