Promoting Diversity in the Computing Workforce with Community Colleges

ETR conducts research that informs faculty and administrators at 2-year colleges on how to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities who persist in the field of computer science and information and communications technologies. We recently completed a longitudinal study of over 700 students enrolled in an introductory programming class at 15 community colleges in California, with results that provide much-needed data on three widely held assumptions about gender differences in pathways to computer science majors.