SOME EXTRACTED POINTS FROM

Cohoon, J. M. (2002). Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing Majors, inroads SIGCSE Bulletin, 34(2):48-52.

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Recommendations for recruiting women:

• Work with high-school teachers

• Communicate with high-school guidance counselors

• Use role models to actively recruit high-school students

• Develop relationships with community colleges

• Make contact with the local community

• Recruit first and second year students from within your institution

• Consider the impact that selection criteria for program admission can have on women's enrollment

• Offer multiple points of entry

• Review public information for the image it projects

Recommendations for retaining women:

• Maintain a stable faculty

• Provide female role models

• Employ faculty who enjoy teaching undergraduates

• Promote interaction among classmates, and develop learning communities and other forms of peer support

• Mentor undergraduates

• Communicative positive opinions of female students' strengths

• Involve women in research

• Build institutional support so the program will have adequate resources

• Use the local job market to provide students with work experience

• Provide students with opportunities to volunteer their computing skills in service to the community