ITWF: Factors Concerning Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering

EIA-0203127 Cuny，Janice E.Asprap，WilliamCohoon，JoannJesse，JoleneComputing Research Association标题：关于招聘和保留女性毕业生的因素计算机科学和工程专业的学生ITWF这个奖项为计算机研究协会(CRA)提供支持，以研究IT劳动力中最大的代表性不足群体的一个重要方面，即女性的研究生教育。该项目将利用前一份最佳实践报告(Janice Cuny和William Asprap，《计算机科学与工程专业女研究生的招聘和留住》，计算研究协会，华盛顿特区，2001)中关于计算机科学与工程(CS&amp；E)研究生院招收和留住女性的经验，研究美国计算机科学与工程(CS&amp；E)研究生项目，以确定和量化该项目招聘和留住实践与其结果之间的联系。本研究预期的结果包括描述和评估50个计算机科学与工程(CS&amp；E)系现有的招生和留住实践；一种衡量招聘做法对新入学女生比例的影响的指标；一种衡量留用做法对女博士留学生比例影响的指标；一套可供各部门用来进行自我评估的材料；对“最佳做法报告”中建议的做法的有效性和全面性的评价；以及关于招聘和留用做法之间的联系及其对女性研究生结果的概括的结论。

EIA-0203127Cuny, Janice E.Aspray, WilliamCohoon, JoanneJesse, JoleneComputing Research AssociationTitle: Factors Concerning Recruitment and Retention of Women GraduateStudents in Computer Science and EngineeringThis ITWF award provides support to the Computing Research Association(CRA) to study an important aspect of the largest under-represented groupin the IT workforce, the graduate education of women. Using experiencegained in a previous Best Practice Report (Janice Cuny and William Aspray,"Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Scienceand Engineering", Computing Research Association, Washington, DC 2001) onrecruiting and retaining women in computer science and engineering (CS&E)graduate school, the project will study U.S. CS&E graduate programs inorder to identify and quantify links between the program's recruitment andretention practices and their outcomes.Results expected from the study include a description and assessment of theexisting recruitment and retention practices in 50 CS&E departments withdoctoral programs; a measure of the impact recruitment practices have onthe female proportion of new students enrolled; a measure of the impactretention practices have on the female proportion of students retainedthrough the doctorate; a set of materials that departments can use to makeself-assessments; an evaluation of the effectiveness and comprehensivenessof the practices recommended in the Best Practices Report; and findingsthat can be generalized on the link between recruitment and retentionpractices and their outcomes with respect to female graduate students.