Understanding and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science and Engineering Course Enrollments at the Undergraduate Level

美国国家科学院提出了一项共识研究，以（1）检查本科计算机科学和计算机工程的招生模式（CS/CE/信息）课程，包括最近和未来潜在的招生变化的可能驱动因素;以及（2）确定当前和新的战略，以应对这些入学水平最近和未来可能发生的变化，同时保持或提高教育质量，妇女和代表性不足的少数群体参与这些领域。 在这项深入研究中将考虑的具体问题包括：--当前和预计的计算机科学，计算机工程和信息（本科信息学院内）本科课程招生模式，包括对推动近期增长并可能推动未来增长的因素的分析。 数据将按4年制院校的类型（例如，前50名、R-1）分列。该研究将包括CS/CE/信息专业和未成年人以及STEM和非STEM专业的学生参加CS/CE/信息部门提供的服务课程或选修CS/CE/信息课程的入学模式分析。 这项工作的一个主要目标是确定最近入学人数的增加是否与过去发生的其他周期性波动相似，或者它们是否更有可能持续下去。 - 各机构正在使用的战略，以最有效地应对入学人数的增长，同时保持或提高课程的访问以及教学质量，考虑类型的学院或大学。该研究将研究这些策略的影响有CS/CE/信息部门方面，例如，教师和研究生招聘和工作量（包括非CS教师），学生保留，并支持不同类别的学生（如非CS专业，CS未成年人，STEM专业，和非STEM专业）的需求。 - 招生增长的影响，努力增加妇女和代表性不足的少数民族在CS/CE/信息课程和学位课程的招生，以及保留这些学生在CS/CE/信息领域的战略，并鼓励他们的途径研究生学位和职业在不断增长的招生背景下，在相关领域。

The National Academy of Sciences proposes a consensus study to (1) examine patterns of enrollment in undergraduate computer science and computer engineering (CS/CE/Information) courses, including possible drivers of recent and potential future changes in enrollment; and (2) identify current and new strategies for responding to recent and possible future changes in these enrollment levels while maintaining or enhancing educational quality and the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in these fields. Specific Issues that will be considered in this intensive study include the following:-- Current and projected patterns of enrollment in undergraduate courses in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information (within undergraduate Information Schools), including an analysis of the factors that have driven recent growth and may drive future growth. Data will be disaggregated by type of 4-year institution (e.g. top 50, R-1). The study will include an analysis of enrollment patterns among CS/CE/Information majors and minors and STEM and non-STEM majors taking service courses offered by CS/CE/Information departments or enrolling in CS/CE/Information courses on an elective basis. A primary goal of this effort is to determine whether the recent increases in enrollment are similar to other cyclic fluctuations that have occurred in the past or whether they are more likely to be sustained. -- Strategies that various institutions are using to respond most effectively to enrollment growth while maintaining or enhancing course access as well as the quality of instruction, considered by type of college or university. The study will examine the impacts those strategies are having on CS/CE/Information departments in terms of, for example, faculty and graduate student hiring and workload (including non-CS faculty), student retention, and support for the needs of different categories of students (such as non-CS majors, CS minors, STEM majors, and non-STEM majors). -- The impact of enrollment growth on efforts to increase the enrollment of women and under-represented minorities in CS/CE/Information courses and degree programs, as well as strategies for retaining those students in the CS/CE/Information field and encouraging their pathways toward graduate degrees and careers in related fields in the context of growing enrollments.