Events - 2013

Maria Klawe
Harvey Mudd College (HMC)

Talk title: ​

"From 10% to 40% Female CS Majors: The Harvey Mudd College Story"

Talk abstract:

In 2006, much like at many other institutions, about 10% of HMC's Computer Science (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.