Maria
Klawe
Harvey
Mudd
College
From
10%
to
40%
Female
CS
Majors:
The
Harvey
Mudd
College
Story
Abstract: In
2006,
much
like
at
many
other
institutions,
about
10%
of
HMC's
CS
majors
were
female.
At
that
time
only
a
third
of
HMC's
students
were
female,
but
CS
was
an
aberration.
About
20%
of
the
physics
majors
and
close
to
30%
of
the
engineering
majors
were
female.
Four
years
later
40%
of
HMC's
CS
majors
were
female,
exactly
the
same
percentage
as
the
whole
HMC
student
body.
This
talk
describes
how
the
CS
department
accomplished
this
change.
Biography: Harvey Mudd College is led by Maria Klawe, HMC’s fifth president, who began her tenure in 2006. A renowned computer scientist and scholar, President Klawe is the first woman to lead the college since its founding in 1955. Prior to joining HMC, she served as dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University.
Klawe joined Princeton from the University of British Columbia, where she served as dean of science from 1998 to 2002, vice president of student and academic services from 1995 to 1998 and head of the Department of Computer Science from 1988 to 1995. Prior to UBC, Klawe spent eight years with IBM Research in California, and two years at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD (1977) and BSc (1973) in mathematics from the University of Alberta.
Klawe has made significant research contributions in several areas of mathematics and computer science, including functional analysis, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, human-computer interaction, gender issues in information technology and interactive-multimedia for mathematics education. Her current research focuses on discrete mathematics.
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