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Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students.

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UW Gets Google Gift to Diversify Computer Science Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Washington (UW) and Google have announced a $400,000 gift from the tech giant that will go towards efforts to diversify the field of K-12 computer science education. Computer science is one of America’s most critical fields. It ' s also among the fastest growing. According to Dr. Amy J.

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Scared of AI? Don't Be, Computer-Science Instructors Say.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Maggie Hicks Lee Klafczynski for The Chronicle Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science, and Javier Gomez-Lavin, an assistant professor of philosophy, lead AI-focused courses at Purdue that blend technical skills and ethics.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

The forum is an intimate, invitation-only gathering modeled after its scientific partner, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings held each July in Lindau, Switzerland. “The half-life of knowledge in computer science is quite short. ” said Barbara Liskov, MIT Institute Professor of computer science.

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University of Miami Computer Science Student Fuels “Accelerate Tech” Pilot Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Davenport, a freshman computer science major from Washington Township, New Jersey is the first facilitator for a new computer science “Accelerate Tech” pilot program that has been incorporated into the Saturday school programming at Earlington Heights Elementary School.

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Permanent Registered Reports Track At Computer Science Education

Academic Computing

Recently, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Eva Marinus and I acted as guest editors of a special issue at the Computer Science Education journal. Registered Reports are a new way to publish science: you peer review the study’s design, before the study has been carried out: (Image Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0

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The 5 subjects proven to give undergrads the best wage premium

University Business

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals.