Tag: Computer Science

Students

Howard University Receives $4 Million Gift to Invest in Minority STEM Scholarship

Howard University received $4 million from the Hopper-Dean Foundation to fund the Bison STEM Scholars Program, a scholarship program designed to increase the number of minority students earning a Ph.D. or M.D.-Ph.D. in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by alleviating their financial burden. The gift, which is the largest amount Howard has received from […]

December 11, 2019

International

NYU Launches Dual Degree Program With Indian Institute of Technology

New York University’s engineering school and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur are embarking on an international partnership, offering a new dual doctoral degree program in computer and electrical engineering.

December 8, 2019

Students

UTEP Honored for High Retention, Graduation Rates Among Underrepresented Students

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) was recently recognized and given an award by the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) for their commitment to retaining and graduating students from underrepresented groups in the computer science field. CMD-IT chose to honor UTEP with their University Award for Retention of […]

September 19, 2019

STEM

Colleges Vie for Resources to Address STEM Disparities

In an era of scarce resources, colleges and universities are increasingly turning to big donors to fund efforts focused squarely on closing achievement gaps in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. For more than a decade, institutions have tried — without much success — to address the ongoing disparity. Still, that has not kept them from making new efforts.

August 2, 2019

Latest News

University of Maryland Summer Camp Strives to Diversify Computer Science

The number of jobs in computer science is expected to grow by 19 percent by 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But women only graduate with 18 percent of computer science bachelor’s degrees. This summer, the University of Maryland continues to combat this disparity with summer camps.

July 17, 2019

News Roundup

Elms College, STCC to Provide Students With Computer-Related Bachelor’s Degrees

The College of Our Lady of the Elms and Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) have signed an agreement to provide students interested in majors such as computer science, information technology and security with several new computer-related bachelor’s degrees. “Ensuring high quality, flexible, affordable undergraduate options remains as important as ever especially in key areas of […]

April 4, 2019

HBCUs

Report: Women and Minorities Continue to be Underrepresented in Computer Science

Though the field of computer science has seen strides in the increased number of people earning degrees and in job openings across the country in recent years, the field is still lacking diverse representation of women and minorities.

December 17, 2018

African-American

HBCUs and PBIs Usher in New Era of Cybersecurity

As a high demand for skilled laborers in cybersecurity and information technology continues – and concerns surge about the nation’s national security – historically Black colleges and universities and predominantly Black institutions have stepped up to train their students for the jobs of the future.

August 2, 2018

News Roundup

Cybersecurity Expert Named President at Carnegie Mellon

PITTSBURGH  – Carnegie Mellon University has named a cybersecurity expert as its new president. The Pittsburgh university of about 14,500 students has announced that Farnam Jahanian has been appointed the college’s 10th president. Jahanian joined the university in 2014 as vice president for research. He then served two years as the school’s provost and became […]

March 8, 2018

Community Colleges

Report: Stark Gender, Racial Gaps Persist in Engineering, Computer Science

Very few female and minority students pursue engineering and computer science degrees at Texas universities, according to an eye-opening Society of Women Engineers (SWE) report that analyzed the state’s community-college transfer students.

January 17, 2018

Students

Study Shows Computer Science Gap Begins Early

Black students are less likely than White students to have computer science courses in middle or high school — 47 versus 58 percent, a new study released Tuesday shows.

October 18, 2016

Faculty & Staff

LATANYA BUCK

LATANYA BUCK has been named dean for diversity and inclusion at Princeton University, effective in August. She was founding director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of Central Missouri, and a doctorate from Saint Louis University.

May 4, 2016