ACM Books recently published Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W. ACM-W is ACM's Women in Computing organization: supporting, celebrating, and advocating for women in computing. Rendering History contains a brief history of ACM-W and an annotated bibliography of important resources concerning women in computing. These two sections sandwich a longer section containing the first-hand stories of 38 women who served ACM-W in its first 30 years. The stories further divide into sections including The Presidents, The Directors, The Chairs, and The Professors and Researchers. This BOF continues the theme of Rendering History. The BOF will divide into subgroups for more intimate conversations about the rewards and challenges of the careers that define our lives and absorb our time. Anticipated groups: Professors, Chairs and Program Directors, and Students. Former Chairs of ACM-W, Valerie Barr and Jodi Tims, will lead a subgroup discussing ACM-W projects that can recruit and retain our students and encourage women in industry. Executive Director and CEO of the Computing Research Association, Tracy Camp, will guide a similar subgroup examining CRA-WP projects (Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research). The remaining subgroups will examine the issues that attendees bring to the discussion group. MaryAnne Egan and Wendy Powley will oversee a student subgroup; Elizabeth Hawthorne and Rachelle Hippler, a professor subgroup; and Gloria Townsend and Ellen Walker, a chair/director subgroup.

The SIGCSE Committee "Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community" will bring together all SIGCSE attendees interested in addressing the gender disparity in computing. Our discussion leaders connect to three of the most important organizations that relate to underrepresentation: ACM-W (Ruth Lennon), CRA-WP (Tracy Camp), and NCWIT (Lecia Barker). The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organizations and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

In January 2004, the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community") was created. The SIGCSE Board approved the charter because the underrepresentation of women in computing is an international problem and an embarrassment for our profession. A BOF provides SIGCSE program advertising that will create a large audience for a discussion of both underrepresentation issues that attendees' institutions have and also solutions that successful gender issues projects provide. Our discussion leaders connect to three of the most important organizations that relate to underrepresentation: ACM-W (Ruth Lennon), CRA-WP (Tracy Camp), and NCWIT (Matt Muchna). The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organizations and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

The literature concerning how participation in organizations for students of color (SoC) relates to computer science grades does not focus on clubs for SoC in computing (SoCiC). This poster concerns a DePauw University organization called Computing Opportunities for Students of Color (COSOC). The organization's components include: intense mentoring by the club's sponsors and upper-level students, visits to industries and graduate schools, talks by alumni of color, social activities, workshops, tutoring, and similar activities. In this poster, the authors demonstrate that grades for Black students who took the first course (Computer Science I or CS1) after COSOC formed differ significantly from those of Black students who took CS1 before COSOC started. Because the sizes of the experimental groups are small, future work will explore qualitative methods.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). The SIGCSE Board approved the charter, because the underrepresentation of women in computing is an international problem and an embarrassment for our profession. A BOF provides SIGCSE program advertising that will create a large audience for dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects and that can provide time for discussion and brainstorming. We select projects to highlight, through listserv communication and through our connections with ACM-W, CRA-W, NCWIT, etc. The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organizations and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). The SIGCSE Board approved the charter, because the underrepresentation of women in computing is an international problem and an embarrassment for our profession. A BOF provides SIGCSE program advertising that will create a large audience for dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects and that can provide time for discussion and brainstorming. We select projects to highlight, through listserv communication and through our connections with ACM-W, CRA-W, NCWIT, etc. The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organizations and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

The literature investigates 1. classroom advantages for students that result from participation in extra-curricular activities; 2. benefits of support programs for Students of Color (SoC); and 3. relationships among sponsors of clubs and the student members of these organizations. The authors found no studies involving the tendency of SoC to enroll in the computer science courses of sponsors of organizations designed to support SoC in computing (SoCiC). The authors' project involves the creation of a student organization for SoCiC. The poster describes activities that the club provides and if word-of-mouth and email communication among a school's small population (21%) of SoC may lead SoC to enroll in the Computer Science I (CS1) courses taught by the sponsors of the organization. The poster reports percents of students who enroll in the sponsors' courses and who enroll in the courses of other faculty members. Future work will involve interviews to explore reasons for faculty selection by SoC. The poster's expected audience includes faculty members interested in effective ideas for recruiting and retaining SoC.

Between 2007 and 2017 the graph of percents of USA female bachelor's degrees in computer and information sciences plateaued below 20%. The seeming inability to crack the 20% ceiling, given the expenditure of billions of USA dollars for projects and research aimed at recruitment and retention of women, calls for new research that is uniquely different from that explored in the literature. The authors investigate the role of female athletes within the computer science environment. The literature currently contains no such exploration. Along with female athletes (FA), the study involves additional groups: female non-athletes (FNA), male athletes (MA), and male non-athletes (MNA). This paper addresses the research questions: Do cumulative GPAs for FA, FNA, MA, and MNA in the current study follow the literature's GPA ordering for the four groups? How do CS1 course grades and cumulative GPAs for the groups relate to each other? Do female and male athletes and non-athletes have different experiences in CS1? If FA thrive in computer science, can future researchers recast some of the elements from the sporting domain for use with FNA in the computing domain, so that many more females will persist in computing?

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). The SIGCSE Board approved the charter, because the underrepresentation of women in computing is an international problem and an embarrassment for our profession. A BOF provides SIGCSE program advertising that will create a large audience for dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects and can provide time for discussion and brainstorming. Generally, the organizers divide the audience into a discussion subgroup and a dissemination section. We select discussion topics from our large listserv membership and offer short project presentations from representatives of ACM-W, NCWIT, ABI, CDC, CRA-W, etc. Last year, our listserv membership selected "assessment of Women-in-Computing projects" as the discussion topic. The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organizations and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

The literature documents the underrepresentation of women in computer science, reasons for the absence of women in computing, and promising practices for increasing female majors in computer science. Among the many reasons for women's avoidance of computer science are: feelings of intimidation, lack of confidence, and aversion to the competitive climate in computing. This paper reports results from a study whose purpose lies in surveying a sample of 457 students at a Midwest US university to answer the questions: What are the personality traits of female athletes who enroll in computer science courses? How are these traits similar to or different from those of male athletes, non-athletes, and students who do not enroll in Computer Science I (CS1) How do grades in CS1 differ among these groups? How do personality traits, gender, athletic team membership, and grades interact? The results of this research study indicate that when females' levels of confidence and intimidation are similar to those of their male peers, women outperform males in CS1. This novel study and its results open the door to additional research questions, new strategies for recruiting women into computing, and potential projects involving female athletes and computer science.

This Research-to-Practice Full Paper presents an analysis of survey results from conferences for women in computing. Women's representation in computing continues to decline, which concerns professionals who explore issues of equity and complicates a future where abundant job vacancies in technology-based jobs are predicted. The critical shortage of female graduates in computer and information sciences leads researchers to investigate both causes and solutions for the underrepresentation of women. One emerging solution lies in creating special conferences for women in computing, where role-modeling, networking, providing student speaking opportunities, and distribution of accurate career information take place. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) launched in 1994 and became the first conference for women in computing to include the prescribed program. The Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing (InWIC) followed in 2014 and provided a similar format to that adopted by GHC. Based on the data from the 2014, 2015, and 2016 InWIC assessments, a regional conference that supports women in computing makes a positive difference in the lives of women in computing. Data published by the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for the same 2014-2016 era also provide three encouraging assessments of GHC. This paper compares the two sets of 20142016 assessments of both INWIC and GHC, using conference goals as comparison criteria.

In fall 2018, the authors established a new student organization at DePauw University to address the severe underrepresentation of students of color (SoC) in computing. The organization, Computing Opportunities for Students of Color (COSOC), aims to create a community for SoC and to establish a sense of belonging through role modeling, mentoring, tutoring, and a series of academic and community events. This poster describes the need for such an organization, goals and objectives, pilot study, main components of COSOC, positive preliminary impact on SoC (including enrollment data), and additional planned assessment. Finally, the poster lists future plans for COSOC.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). The SIGCSE Board approved the charter, because the underrepresentation of women in computing is an international problem and an embarrassment for our profession. A BOF provides SIGCSE program advertising that will create a large audience for dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects and can provide time for discussion and brainstorming. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with ACM-W, NCWIT, ABI, CDC, CRA-W, etc. The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organization and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

SIGCSE addresses gender issues in computing year after year. At DePauw University, we learned from SIGCSE's lessons - and those taught by ACM's Council on Women in Computing - and recently awarded 47% of our computer science undergraduate degrees to women. This talk provides a rapid-fire countdown of ten of our most effective strategies that created our 47% class.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). The SIGCSE Board approved the charter, because the underrepresentation of women in computing is an international problem and an embarrassment for our profession. A BOF provides SIGCSE program advertising that will create a large audience for dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects and can provide time for discussion and brainstorming. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with ACM-W, NCWIT, ABI, CDC, CRA-W, etc. The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organization and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). Our 14th Annual Town Meeting provides dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with ABI, ACM-W, CDC, CRA-W, NCWIT. The forum provides an important annual meeting for a large group of people, who work to increase the representation of women in computing in their separate organizations and who do not customarily have an opportunity to share ideas face-to-face.

Women are underrepresented in the computer science field. In fact, only 15% of bachelor degrees in pure computer science are awarded to women [1]. The literature reveals various reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing, including lack of role models [2]. An experimental class at DePauw University continued a project to expose fifth-graders to both programming and female role models, in order to change attitudes toward computing -- in particular, the attitudes of both boys and girls to the inclusion of girls in computing activities. The DePauw class visited the children a total of 5 times, administering an attitude scale (CATS [3]) as both a pre-test and post-test instrument. The children learned the programming language, Scratch, and developed two storytelling endings for books they had read in their current English curriculum unit. Pre- and post-test comparisons of the 10 CATS items (Likert-type attitude scale) were obtained using one-tailed t-tests for the 10 paired responses from the 20 children (10 boys and 10 girls). The t-test for item number 7 ("Technology is as difficult for girls as it is for boys.") yielded a p-value of 0.019, which was significant at the .05 level. Since little girls and little boys should think that computing is equally easy and equally difficult for each sex, the results provide one piece of evidence that providing a series of lessons involving Scratch by a team of students with sufficient female role models (4 female students and 4 male) can change children's attitudes toward computing.

In 2004, the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) launched a series of regional conferences for women in computing, called Celebrations. Celebrations adopted several components of the well-known international conference, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC). This paper will describe the Celebrations' components and rationale for these components, based upon research into the causes for the underrepresentation of women in computing. Recently, two papers [26, 27] compared GHC's and Celebrations' common post-conference survey items for the first time, indicating that Celebrations' attendees rate identical questions about the conferences positively at a rate that meets or exceeds percents of GHC attendees. The papers' results provide important contributions to the literature of gender issues in computing, because another independent set of papers cites the advantages of attendance at GHC. Experimenters have not previously studied pre-surveys administered to either GHC's or Celebrations' attendees, nor have they compared the results of pre-surveys to post-surveys. For the first time, this paper describes pre-surveying and also post-conference, follow-up surveying at a several-months' interval after Celebrations attendance. Positive results from the follow-up surveys further extend the value of Celebrations.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). Our annual Town Meeting provides dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming, in order to create committee goals for the coming year. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with NCWIT, ABI, ACM-W, CRA-W, etc. This year we will highlight ACM-W Chapters and ACM-W Celebrations of Women in Computing.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). Our annual Town Meeting provides dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming, in order to create committee goals for the coming year. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with NCWIT, ABI, ACM-W, CRA-W, etc. This year we will highlight ACM-W Chapters and ACM-W Regional Celebrations.

Motivated by the significance and the consequences of women's underrepresentation in computing, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a project linking ACM-W's (Association for Computing Machinery's Women in Computing) Celebrations of Women in Computing (conferences) with projects sponsored by two additional organizations in the United States, the Anita Borg Institute's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) and the National Center of Women & IT's Annual Summit. The collaborative project, funded by the National Science Foundation and titled, the Grace Hopper Regional Consortium, featured twelve new regional Celebrations of Women in Computing (Celebrations). An external assessment agency surveyed conference organizers and participants. The paper analyzes data derived from the surveying, demonstrating the impact of the conferences on Celebration attendees, and shows for the first time a comparison of identical survey items from separate GHC and Celebrations assessments.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). Our annual Town Meeting provides dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming, in order to create committee goals for the coming year. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with NCWIT, ABI, ACM-W, CRA-W, etc. This year we will highlight ACM-W Chapters and ACM-W Celebrations of Women in Computing.

In many parts of the world, special regional conferences for women help inspire women to persist in the male-dominated culture of computer science. The conferences occur in India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States; the Association for Computing Machinery and its Women's Council sponsor most of the events. The celebrations of women in computing address the underrepresentation of women by focusing on retention. Within the broad retention classification, subgoals involve: intentional role modeling, mentoring, community building and providing accurate career information. Features of individual conferences vary, but most events include different tracks concentrating on research and industry; sessions covering ethical, social and curricular issues; lightning talks in which attendees share five- to ten-minute presentations on topics of their choosing; poster sessions; and a career fair where companies interview attendees for internship and job openings and where graduate schools provide information about their programs. In the United States, a recent National Science Foundation grant funded twelve new regional conferences and extensive assessment of the project. The poster summarizes the conference goals, the components of the events, results of the evaluation conducted by a professional assessment company and contact information for existing conferences and for launching new conferences. Regional celebrations connect women, often in remote areas around the globe, and the collection of conferences has the potential to form a new World Wide Web -- a web of women.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). Our annual Town Meeting provides dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming, in order to create committee goals for the coming year. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with NCWIT, ABI, ACM-W, CRA-W, etc. This year we will highlight ACM-W Chapters and ACM-W Regional Celebrations.

In January 2004, we organized the second SIGCSE Committee ("Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community"). Our annual Town Meeting provides dissemination of information concerning successful gender issues projects, along with group discussion and brainstorming, in order to create committee goals for the coming year. We select projects to highlight through listserv communication and through our connections with NCWIT, ABI, ACM-W, CRA-W, etc. This year we will highlight the new NSF Broadening Participation in Computing grant -- a grant that encompasses projects we presented in previous BOFs and a grant that builds on an alliance among ACM-W, ABI and NCWIT.

Concern with declining numbers of computer science majors leads educators to examine recruitment and retention factors in Computer Science I (CS1), in order to increase the number of students entering the undergraduate computer science pipeline. The literature reveals that introverted students dominate the CS1 classroom at a rate more than twice that of the general population and that the students perform better in the course as a group than extraverts do. Therefore, increasing the comfort level and engagement of introverted students seems practical - as well as thoughtful. The author of this paper hypothesizes that encouraging students to use an anonymous submission feature in a groupware system will increase the comfort of shy students who are reluctant to engage in the CS1 classroom. A study reveals a significant difference between a group of students who used the same groupware system without instruction regarding the groupware system's anonymous feature and a treatment group of students who received instruction and were encouraged to use the anonymous feature. The project also uncovers several significant correlations among students' responses to various items in the survey instrument.

This paper highlights several viewpoints concerning a small regional conference for women in computing, which is modeled after the successful and well-known Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The viewpoints include rationale for the conference, descriptions of the celebration that provide a snapshot which captures the ease of organizing a similar event at other regional sites, additional sources for finding complete information (including a detailed how-to manual) and an account of the assessment of two recent regional celebrations performed by senior researchers at the National Center of Women and Information Technology (NCWIT).

This special session will provide an overview of the programs that ACM's executive committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) coordinates for the recruitment and retention of women in computing. The overview will include projects in all areas of ACM-W with special focus on those projects impacting the educational environment.

This paper includes several reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing, and then describes two low-cost project instances that address the reasons for the decline in women's enrollment in computing classes. One project spans seven semesters from fall 2000 to spring 2006 at a small liberal arts school; the other, the spring 2006 semester at a large research institution. Concluding sections provide anecdotal and statistical evidence that the project is successful over two time periods within two diverse schools.

Biologists have developed models to explain why different environmentally induced morphs of the same organism exist over time. Such conditional strategies are a common form of adaptation to variable environments, whereby an environmental cue allows some individuals to respond to the cue and develop into a morph that is different from the morph of individuals that do not receive the cue. Recently, these efforts have resulted in two different analytical models that give somewhat different predictions. Here we apply evolutionary computation methods to test the two analytical models. The results bear a remarkable similarity to the results of one of the two analytical models. The paper that follows presents the details of a biological application involving snails and barnacles (that occur naturally in two different morphs), moving then to an explanation of two competing mathematical models of the application. Finally, the interdisciplinary paper, which coordinates three separate research projects of a biologist, a mathematician and a computer scientist, describes the evolutionary computation methods used to support one of the two competing analytical models.

This paper includes several sources from computer science literature, describing three conflicting views of how ethical issues should be incorporated in curricula. Descriptions of specific curricular examples, drawn from several phases of our university's plan for including ethical issues, follow the literature review.

Presentation at professional conference and/or article in professional journal written by DePauw University faculty member. Item available in Archives.

Presentation at professional conference and/or article in professional journal written by DePauw University faculty member. Item available in Archives.

article Free Access Share on A new scheme for reinforcing concepts in CS2 Authors: Dave Berque Computer Science Department, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Computer Science Department, DePauw University, Greencastle, INView Profile , Gloria Townsend Computer Science Department, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Computer Science Department, DePauw University, Greencastle, INView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCSE BulletinVolume 27Issue 1March 1995 pp 327–330https://doi.org/10.1145/199691.199843Online:15 March 1995Publication History 1citation143DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads143Last 12 Months1Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF