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)将帮助满足对多样化的计算机科学(CS)劳动力的需求。尽管过去五年CS入学人数大幅增加，学位产量从2010年到2013年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14%)。妇女在计算机系统中的参与率低，对计算机工作人员的多样性和侧重计算机的组织中可能出现的技术创新水平产生了负面影响。CS-LLLW项目将通过为妇女建立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，并将加强在CS招聘和留住妇女。该项目将在其他领域对有限责任公司的现有研究基础上，在扩大计算参与度和CS教育最佳实践的基础上，将成功的实践应用于CS，开展新的研究以了解有限责任公司的有效性，并为全国的能力建设提供一个模式。该项目的研究假设是，对CS感兴趣并参与有限责任公司的一年级女大学生将比那些没有参加有限责任公司的人更有可能选择CS专业。此外，在CS专业的女性学生中，LLC参与者在整个本科阶段比她们的非LLC同龄人表现出更高的参与度和成功程度。为了研究解决这一假设的研究问题，该项目将在罗格斯大学为计算机科学领域的女性实施和研究有限责任公司，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，目的是增加她们在计算机科学领域坚持、茁壮成长和取得成功的动机。这个项目的长期目标是建立最佳实践方法，让学生在大学早期参与CS课程。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学生攻读CS学位，帮助使计算劳动力多样化。

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.