SOME EXTRACTED POINTS FROM

Cuny, J. and W. Aspray (2002). Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering: Results of a Workshop Organized by the Computing Research Association, inroads SIGCSE Bulletin, 34(2):168-174.

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Recommendations for recruiting women to Graduate CSE Programs:

• Broaden the recruitment pool beyond students with undergraduate CSE majors

• Broaden the criteria used in admission and be flexible in their application

• Encourage reentry students

• Provide bridging opportunities to entering graduate students

• Explicitly include diversity considerations in your admissions process

• Be proactive in making recruiting contacts

• Review all departmental publications for both text and images containing overt or subtle message that might discourage women from applying

• Inform your undergraduates about the opportunities and rewards of a research career, giving them timely information about appropriate preparation for such a career

• Provide undergraduate women with exposure to computing research. Students who have had hands-on experience with computing research as undergraduates are more likely to apply to graduate school

• Give individual encouragement to your women undergraduates

• Actively counter negative stereotypes and misperceptions of computer science and engineering

Recommendations for retaining women through Graduation:

• Be diligent at mentoring women graduate students

• Help to create a peer community for your women students

• Broaden the institutional culture of the department to accept a range of personal choices in balancing work and life

• Provide women role models

• Integrate students into the research culture of the department as early as possible

• Help women graduate students become involved in the professional community as well as the departmental community

• Standardize the methods your department uses for delivering information, so that students do not have to be part of an informal social network to receive it

• Change the departmental infrastructure to better promote the equal participation of women