PGE/PLN Spurring the Entry of Women into Information Technology in West Virginia Planning Grant

西弗吉尼亚大学正在与“为女性挺身而出”组织合作，准备一份完整的提案。该计划将于2003年秋季开始实施，其目标是增加进入西弗吉尼亚大学计算机科学专业的女性人数。要解决的研究问题是，卡内基梅隆大学的Jane Margolis和Allan Fisher （Margolis, 2002）以及前普渡大学（Purdue University）、现就职于亨利·卢斯基金会（Henry Luce Foundation）的Jane Zimmer Daniels采用的方法是否适用于一所招生要求不高的农村大学。这项工作的核心是两个学期的课程序列，这将是基于发现的现实世界的方向。这项工作的结果应该转移到类似州的学院和大学，寻求增加所有学生，特别是女性学生的计算机科学。

West Virginia University is teaming with Step-Up for Women to prepare a full proposal. The objective of the proposed project to be implemented beginning in fall 2003 is to increase the number of women entering and remaining in the computer science major at West Virginia University. The research question to be addressed is whether an adaptation of the approaches used by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher at Carnegie Mellon University [Margolis, 2002] and by Jane Zimmer Daniels, formerly at Purdue University and now at The Henry Luce Foundation, are applicable at a university in a rural state with modest admissions requirements. Central to the work is a two semester course sequence which will be discovery-based with a real-world orientation. The results of this work should be transferable to colleges and universities in similar states seeking to increase all students and particularly female students in computer science.