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）将有助于满足对多元化计算机科学（CS）劳动力的需求。 虽然CS入学人数在过去五年中大幅上升，学位产量从2010年到2013年每年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%）。 妇女参与计算机科学的程度低，对计算机劳动力的多样性和以计算机为重点的组织的技术创新水平产生了负面影响。 社区服务-地方妇女理事会项目将通过为妇女建立社区服务生活学习社区来解决这一问题，该社区将提供身临其境的教育体验，并将加强社区服务中妇女的招聘和保留。 该项目将在现有的关于其他领域的低成本公司的研究、扩大计算机参与以及计算机科学教育的最佳实践的基础上，将成功的实践应用于计算机科学，开展新的研究以了解低成本公司的有效性，并为全国的能力建设提供一个模式。将更有可能宣布CS专业比那些谁不参加有限责任公司。此外，在女性CS专业，LLC参与者将表现出更高水平的参与和成功，在整个本科期间相比，他们的非LLC同行。 为了研究解决这一假设的研究问题，该项目将实施和研究在罗格斯大学计算机科学的女性有限责任公司提供辅导，同行支持和接触CS的问题和应用程序的两个女学生群体的目标是增加他们的动机，坚持，茁壮成长，并在CS成功。该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。这些办法一旦确立并得到验证，其他机构将能够采用。最终，该项目将通过激励和激励新一代学生攻读计算机科学学位来帮助实现计算劳动力的多样化。

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.