Higher Education

Supporting students’ computing education is a team effort: faculty, staff, and administration are all responsible for creating inclusive processes and environments. NCWIT offers ways to structure curriculum for student success, to understand and combat the effects of unconscious bias and stereotype threat, to examine recruitment and retention trends, to identify problem areas, measure progress, and more.

Higher Education

Supporting students’ computing education is a team effort: faculty, staff, and administration are all responsible for creating inclusive processes and environments. NCWIT offers ways to structure curriculum for student success, to understand and combat the effects of unconscious bias and stereotype threat, to examine recruitment and retention trends, to identify problem areas, measure progress, and more.

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Learn about the current status of computing degrees earned by women, and raise awareness among colleagues and students to help increase women's meaningful participation.

See and hear from a wide range of technical role models. Foster connections with the local community. Motivate students by relating computing experiences to their current interests.

Faculty can consider three evidence-based principles for engaging and retaining all students: Make It Matter, Grow Inclusive Student Community, and Build Student Confidence and Professional Identity.

NCWIT offers awards for both computing students and faculty, recognizing students’ technical accomplishments and faculty’s inclusion efforts relative to their students.

Revise educational systems to fit people, rather than changing people to fit biased systems, with resources that help computing faculty reimagine recruitment, retention, and evaluation.

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Organizations can join the Academic Alliance to benefit from an exclusive invitation to the annual NCWIT Summit, guidance in applying research-based strategies for creating inclusion, and more. Through the Academic Alliance, mobilize year round alongside faculty, staff, administrators, department heads, and other mentors nationwide working together to create lasting impact.

Individuals can also volunteer through NCWIT outreach and recognition programs. Recognize students for their computing aspirations, honor faculty for their outstanding mentorship, recruit at virtual career fairs and student-focused conferences, and more.

The Academic Alliance is funded in part by Microsoft Research.

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