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：(1)检查计算机科学和计算机工程（CS/CE/信息）本科课程的招生模式，包括最近和潜在未来招生变化的可能驱动因素；(2)确定当前和新的策略，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以及妇女和代表性不足的少数民族在这些领域的参与。在这项深入研究中将考虑的具体问题包括：—计算机科学、计算机工程和信息（本科信息学院）本科课程的当前和预计入学模式，包括对推动近期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类别分类（例如排名前50，R-1）。研究将包括分析主修计算机科学/计算机科学/信息专业的学生和辅修学生，以及主修计算机科学/计算机科学/信息专业的学生和非STEM专业的学生修读计算机科学/计算机科学/信息专业的服务课程，或选修计算机科学/计算机科学/信息专业的课程的情况。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。-各机构在保持或提高课程准入和教学质量的同时，最有效地应对招生增长的策略，按学院或大学的类型考虑。该研究将研究这些策略对计算机科学/计算机科学/信息部门的影响，例如，教师和研究生的招聘和工作量（包括非计算机科学教师），学生保留率以及对不同类别学生（如非计算机科学专业，计算机科学辅修专业，STEM专业和非STEM专业）需求的支持。——招生增长对提高女性和少数族裔在计算机科学/计算机科学/信息专业和学位课程中的入学率的影响，以及在招生增长的背景下，如何将这些学生留在计算机科学/计算机科学/信息领域，并鼓励他们获得相关领域的研究生学位和职业发展的策略。

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.