Friday Open Thread
Computer science and young women - a great article from the NY Times that includes mention of a great computer science and engineering department at UW. Behind the scenes of many of these colleges’ efforts is an organization called the National Center for Women & Information Technology . It provides consultants to college faculties on how to change their programs to recruit and retain women. On Thursday, the center is giving the University of Washington its first award, sponsored by Google, for colleges that have succeeded in this effort. The center hopes to give the award annually. Thirty percent of University of Washington bachelor’s degrees in computer science last year went to women. Ed Lazowska, chairman in computer science and engineering at the university, called that share “not great.” Still, it is twice the national average and up from 20 percent in 2010 and 15 percent in 2005. I had to smile at this article from WHEC in Rochester, New York ove...