Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

DEI Service in CS department at Colgate University

• Sustained Dialogue Initiative - a consistent process where people explore hot topics while at the same time building connections in which a safe space and continuous personal growth can happen by focusing on transformational and in-depth conversation practice using Stage 3 and 4 of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) educational model.

• IGD Workshop at Colgate (for faculty and staff) - teaches concrete strategies to dialogue on difficult topics such as those involving DEI issues.

• Colgate Women in Computer Science (WiCS) - through mentoring, open hours, career advice, and discussions of women in the CS field, WiCS hopes to create a support system for each other and bring together all class years in the CS department.

• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - mentoring and sustaining students.

DEI Research in CSed

At Rutgers University, my colleagues and I studied a dataset spanning over 3.5 academic years, looking at the gender gap, trends related to the gender gap, and how they impact retention in introductory courses.

Monica Babes-Vroman, Isabel Juniewicz, Bruno Lucarelli, Nicole Fox, Thu Nguyen, Andrew Tjang, Georgiana Haldeman, Ashni Mehta, and Risham Chokshi. 2017. Exploring Gender Diversity in CS at a Large Public R1 Research University. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ‘17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 51–56.