Relevant Publications and Reports

Keeping What We've Got: Effective Strategies for Retaining Minority Freshmen in Engineering , NACME Research Letter, September 1999, PDF, 140 KB.

Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research Graduate School Information Guide, PDF -- a grad school guide

Minority Students and Research Universities: How to Overcome the 'Mismatch' by Richard Tapia, Published in Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2009-03-27, HTML.

The Relationships Among Racial Identity, Perceived Ethnic Fit, and Organizational Involvement for African American Students at a Predominantly White University by T. Chavous, Journal of Black Psychology, February 2000, PDF, 63 KB

“A Fly in the Buttermilk”: Descriptions of University Life by Successful Black Undergraduate Students at a Predominately White Southeastern University, M. Davis, Y. Dias-Bowie, K. Greenberg, G. Klukken, H. R. Pollio, S. P., Thomas, C. L. Thompson, The Journal of Higher Education, PDF, 98 KB

College in Black and White: Campus Environment and Academic Achievement of African American Males by J. E. Davis, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 63, No. 4, Autumn 1994, PDF, 1.83 MB

The Continuing Significance of Racism: Discrimination Against Black Students at White Colleges by J. R. Feagin, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4, June 1992, PDF, 734 KB

A National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities by D. J. Nelson, PDF, 5.19 MB

Promoting National Minority Leadership in Science and Engineering: A Report on Proposed Action by R. Tapia, D. Chubin, C. Lanius, Rice University Report, October 2000, PDF, 400 KB

Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students in Computer Science, W. Aspray and A. Bernat, Coalition to Diversify Computing Report, March 2000, PDF, 211 KB

Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering, J. Cuny and W. Aspray, Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research Report, June 2000, PDF, 192 KB

Statistics and Trends, Enrollment and Degree Production

5_College_Majors_On_the_Rise.pdf -- 5 College Majors on the Rise, article by Karin Fischer and David Glenn, August 31, 2009, published in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. In interviews with The Chronicle, academic experts, business analysts, and economic forecasters helped identify five emerging areas of study you are likely to see at more colleges in the coming years.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/30/stem -- A Portrait of STEM Majors, article by Doug Lederman, July 30, 2009. A new federal study examines three federal databases to follow students who enter those high-demand fields through the higher education pipeline.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/science/17comp.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print -- Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment, article by John Markoff, NY Times, March 17, 2009. According to the 2206-2007 Taulbee Survey, for the first time in six years, enrollment in computer science programs in the United States increased last year, but diversity in computer science remains poor. Also, see the full Taulbee Survey below.

http://www.cra.org/CRN/articles/may08/taulbee.html -- 2006-2007 Taulbee Survey (the 37th annual ground-breaking survey of Ph.D.-granting departments of computer science (CS) and computer engineering (CE) in the United States and Canada. This survey is conducted annually by the Computing Research Association to document trends in student enrollment, employment of graduates, and faculty salaries, and is the principal source of information on the enrollment, production, and employment of Ph.D.s in computer science and computer engineering in North America.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/013391.html -- Hispanics Become More Prevalent on College Campuses, a press release by the US Census Bureau. Hispanic students comprised 12 percent of full-time college students (both undergraduate and graduate students) in 2007, up from 10 percent in 2006, according to U.S. Census Bureau tables released today. Hispanics comprise 15 percent of the nation's total population. Links to detailed analysis available from the press release page.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;304/5675/1285 -- Perceptions and Realities of the Workplace, Science Magazine. (Must be an AAAS member to access this).

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07324/ -- Why Did They Come to the United States? A Profile of Immigrant Scientists and Engineers, NSF report.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/609927/analysis-women-in-it-still-hit-glass-ceiling -- Analysis: Women in IT still hit glass ceiling.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08308/ -- Thirty-Three Years of Women in Science and Engineering Faculty Positions, NSF report.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08319/ -- Role of HBCUs as Baccalaureate-Origin Institutions of Black S&E Doctorate Recipients , NSF report.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf04315/ -- The Role of Community Colleges in the Education of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates, NSF report.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/ -- Science and Engineering Indicators, published by the National Science Board, provides a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/ -- Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science & Engineering 2009 Report, NSF.

Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2007, from the Pew Hispanic Center - This statistical profile of the Latino population is based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Census Bureau's 2007 American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is the largest household survey in the United States, with a sample of about 3 million addresses. It covers virtually the same topics as those in the long form of the decennial census. The ACS is designed to provide estimates of the size and characteristics of the resident population, which includes persons living in households and, for the first time, persons living in group quarters. Very detailed statistical information here.

Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls and Science Education -- book announcement, by Sandra L. Hanson - Temple University Press, 2008. "Swimming Against the Tide addresses important research issues, with implications for the cultivation and retention of scientific talent and for practice and policy in science education. It also has implications for understanding the 'culture of science’ and the factors that encourage/discourage participation." Sandra L. Hanson is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University. She is also the author of Lost Talent: Women in the Sciences (Temple).

Every IT woman needs a peer network: Here's why, by Gail Farnsley, in Computerworld, February 2, 2009.

Blacks in Computer Science, the Secrets of Their Success, by Theresa Sullivan Barger and Eric Addison - NSBE's Magazines, in Career Engineer, November/December 2008.

Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing -- book announcement, by Jane Margolis, Rachel Estrella, Joanna Goode, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Kim Nao - MIT Press, 2008. This highly reviewed book presents a case study of how students of color are denied access to college-preparatory educational opportunities in computer science. The book's goal is to provide research that moves people to push for educational equity across racial lines. PDF, 168 KB.

Conference on Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers, May 10, 2008. Washington, DC, HTML

SAT Subject Tests Face New Scrutiny, by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, March 17, 2008, HTML

CS PhD Students Study Computer Science Retention Practices, HTML

Continued Drop in CS Bachelor's Degree Production and Enrollments as the Number of New Majors Stabilizes, Jay Vegso, Computing Research News, Vol. 19, No. 2, March 2007, HTML

Diversity and Underrepresentation

increasing_participation_ieee_mag_april2009.pdf -- "Increasing Participation of Females and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing" - Peggy Doerschuk, Jiangjiang Liu, Judith Mann - published in the April 2009 issue of the IEEE Computing Magazine.

http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/printer_12347.shtml -- What Will It Take To Increase Hispanics in STEM? Money, of Course. An article in Diverse Online by Karen Branch-Brioso, March 2, 2009. The National Science Foundation came to Hispanic-serving institutions for advice on the best way to tackle the lack of Latinos in STEM fields.

http://diverseeducation.com/top08/top100_listing.html -- Diverse Issues in Higher Education's Top 100 Listings of degree producers.

"True Diversity Doesn't Come From Abroad," by Richard A. Tapia, Rice University, Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007): B34 . . . or see here, Tapia article in September 2007 Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Computer Science Faculty Diversity during the Past Decade, by Jerlando F.L. Jackson and Elizabeth M. O’Callaghan - University of Wisconsin-Madison, in IEEE Internet Magazine, December 2008, PDF, 229 KB.