{"id":8321,"date":"2016-07-28T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:27:47","slug":"forbes-highlights-bu-in-attracting-more-women-to-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2016\/07\/28\/forbes-highlights-bu-in-attracting-more-women-to-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes highlights BU in attracting more women to CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes magazine recently published an article titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michellecheng\/2016\/07\/27\/attracting-more-women-to-study-stem-in-a-world-full-of-geek-dude-stereotypes\/print\/\">Attracting More Women to Study STEM in a World Full of Geek Dude Stereotypes<\/a>.&#8221; Professor Mark Crovella, Chair of BU&#8217;s Department of Computer Science, is quoted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BU\u2019s computer science department changed the introductory courses to \u201cshow students, it\u2019s not just about programs.\u201d This past semester, the percentage of women in the introductory computer science course, CS 111, was 40%. \u201cI think what\u2019s being understood is that computer science can [be] just as attractive to women as men,\u201d says Mark Crovella, the chair of BU\u2019s computer science department. \u201cI think they will basically stop seeing computer science as geeks who sit in cubicles and start thinking of them as people who make an impact in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/buwics.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cs\/files\/2016\/07\/WiCS.jpg\" alt=\"WiCS\" class=\" alignright wp-image-8323\" height=\"203\" width=\"163\" \/><\/a>The growth in the number of women majoring in CS comes at a time when interest in CS across all populations is surging, especially among traditionally underrepresented populations as highlighted in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/computer-science-enrollment-increasing\/\">BU Today article<\/a>. The department continues our efforts in making women specifically feel more welcome, such as supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/buwics.wordpress.com\/\">Women in Computer Science<\/a> group, sending 12 students to this October&#8217;s 2016 Grace Hopper Conference Celebrating Women in Computing, and making a point to hire women into undergraduate teaching assistant positions to help all students in our courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes magazine recently published an article titled &#8220;Attracting More Women to Study STEM in a World Full of Geek Dude Stereotypes.&#8221; Professor Mark Crovella, Chair of BU&#8217;s Department of Computer Science, is quoted: BU\u2019s computer science department changed the introductory courses to \u201cshow students, it\u2019s not just about programs.\u201d This past semester, the percentage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14284,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}