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

美国国家科学院提议进行一项协商一致的研究，以(1)审查计算机科学和计算机工程(CS/CE/Information)本科课程的招生模式，包括最近和未来招生变化的可能驱动因素；(2)确定当前和新的战略，以应对这些招生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，以及妇女和代表性不足的少数群体在这些领域的参与。这项深入研究将考虑的具体问题包括：--计算机科学、计算机工程和信息(在本科信息学院内)本科课程的当前和计划招生模式，包括对推动最近增长和可能推动未来增长的因素的分析。数据将按四年制院校的类型分类(例如，排名前50的R-1)。这项研究将包括分析CS/CE/资讯专业和未成年人，以及修读CS/CE/资讯部门提供的服务课程或选修CS/CE/资讯课程的STEM和非STEM专业学生的入学模式。这一努力的一个主要目标是确定最近入学人数的增加是否类似于过去发生的其他周期性波动，或者它们是否更有可能持续下去。-各种机构正在使用的策略，以最有效地应对招生增长，同时保持或提高课程准入以及教学质量，按学院或大学类型考虑。这项研究将从教师和研究生的招聘和工作量(包括非CS教师)、留学生以及对不同类别学生(如非CS专业、CS辅修专业、STEM专业和非STEM专业)的需求的支持等方面考察这些策略对CS/CE/信息部门的影响。--入学人数增长对增加妇女和代表不足的少数群体参加CS/CE/信息课程和学位方案的努力的影响，以及在入学人数不断增加的情况下留住CS/CE/信息领域的这些学生并鼓励他们获得研究生学位和从事相关领域职业的战略。

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.