Computer Science Living-Learning Community for Women at Rutgers

罗格斯大学的女性计算机科学生活学习社区（CS- llcw）将帮助解决对多样化计算机科学（CS）劳动力的需求。尽管在过去五年中，计算机科学专业的入学人数大幅增加，并且从2010年到2013年，学位产量每年都以两位数的百分比增长，但女性毕业生的比例仍然很低（约为14%）。女性在计算机科学中的低参与度对计算机劳动力的多样性和计算机组织中可能的技术创新水平产生了负面影响。CS- llcw项目将通过为女性开发CS生活学习社区（LLC）来解决这一问题，该社区将提供身临其境的教育体验，并将加强CS女性的招聘和保留。在其他领域关于低成本国家的现有研究、扩大计算机参与和计算机科学教育最佳实践的基础上，本项目将使成功的实践适用于计算机科学，开展新的研究以了解有限责任国家的有效性，并为国家能力建设提供一个模式。该项目的研究假设是，对计算机科学感兴趣并参加有限责任公司的一年级女大学生比没有参加有限责任公司的大一女生更有可能选择计算机科学专业。此外，在计算机科学专业的女性中，与非有限责任公司的同龄人相比，有限责任公司的参与者在整个本科阶段的参与度和成功程度都要高得多。为了研究解决这一假设的研究问题，该项目将实施和研究罗格斯大学计算机科学女性有限责任公司，为两组女学生提供指导、同伴支持和接触计算机科学问题和应用的机会，目的是提高她们在计算机科学领域坚持、发展和成功的动力。该项目的长期目标是建立最佳实践方法，使学生在大学早期参与计算机科学。一旦建立和验证，其他机构将能够采用这些方法。最终，该项目将通过激励和激励新一代的学生攻读计算机科学学位，帮助计算机劳动力多样化。

The Computer Science Living-Learning Community for Women (CS-LLCW) at Rutgers University will help address the need for a diverse computer science (CS) workforce. While CS enrollments have risen substantially in the last five years, and degree production has increased by a double-digit percentage each year from 2010 to 2013, the percentage of graduates who are women remains low (around 14%). The low participation of women in CS negatively impacts the diversity of the computing workforce and the level of technical innovation possible in computing focused organizations. The CS-LLCW project will address this issue by developing a CS Living-Learning Community (LLC) for women that will provide an immersive educational experience and will enhance the recruitment and retention of women in CS. Building on existing research on LCCs in other fields, on broadening participation in computing, and on best practices for CS education, this project will adapt successful practices to CS, develop new research to understand the effectiveness of LLCs, and provide a model for building capacity nationally.The project's research hypothesis is that first-year women college students who are interested in CS, and who participate in the LLC, will be more likely to declare a CS major than those do who not participate in an LLC. Further, among women CS majors, LLC participants will exhibit substantially higher levels of engagement and success throughout their undergraduate years in comparison to their non-LLC peers. In order to study research questions that address this hypothesis, the project will implement and study an LLC for Women in Computer Science at Rutgers to provide mentoring, peer support and exposure to the issues and applications of CS to two cohorts of women students with the goal of increasing their motivation to persist, thrive, and succeed in CS. The long-term goal of this project is to establish best-practice approaches to engaging students in CS during their early years in college. Once established and validated, other institutions will be able to adopt these approaches. Ultimately, the project will help diversify the computing workforce by inspiring and motivating new generations of students to pursue degrees in CS.