Resources for Retaining and Advancing Mid-career Technical Women Guide
Managers and others can use this guide to find NCWIT resources that will help them create highly productive, diverse technical teams. Resources are catalogued by ...
REU-In-A-Box: Expanding the Pool of Computing Researchers
REU-in-A-Box: Expanding the Pool of Computing Researchers explains the benefits of undergraduate research in computing with content developed by experienced computing faculty mentors and undergraduate ...
Top 10 Ways You Can Retain Students in Computing
This brief, easy-to-share resource highlights the top ten evidence-based ways to retain undergraduate students in computing. Related resource: EngageCSEdu: Foster diversity in your introductory computer ...
Which computing majors are right for me?
This card, co-branded with ACM, explains how computing interests and talents line up with different undergraduate degrees and the careers that follow.
How can I prepare for a computing major?
Produced with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), this card gives computing-specific advice for the steps to take ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Supervisors as Change Agents
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Supervisors as Change Agents is for supervisors who wish to become change agents in their organizations. The materials are focused on actions that ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Performance Review/Talent Management
Supervising-in-a-Box: Performance Review/Talent Management provides supervisors with resources for reducing biases in performance evaluation and talent management systems. This “Box” includes tip sheets, resources for ...
How Can Reducing Unconscious Bias Increase Women’s Success in IT?
Research shows that even individuals committed to equality harbor unconscious biases that impact everyday decisions and interactions. In the IT workplace, unconscious gender bias can ...
Strategic Planning for Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing
This workbook presents some guidelines for strategically planning a multi-pronged approach to retain females — and all students — in undergraduate computing programs of study. ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Team/Project Management
Supervising-in-a-Box helps establish supportive and effective relationships with a diverse range of employees. This box explores ways to reduce or remove unconscious bias, discriminatory practices, ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Employee Development
Supervising-in-a-Box Series helps establish supportive and effective relationships with a diverse range of employees. This box explores ways to reduce or remove unconscious bias, discriminatory ...
How Can REUs Help Retain Female Undergraduates?
Undergraduates with positive research experiences feel more confident and motivated to enter graduate programs. To facilitate successful REUs, supportive faculty advisors or graduate mentors should ...
How Can Leader-Member Relationships Promote Women’s Retention and Advancement?
Positive leader-member relationships are characterized by exchanges of trust, respect, and low formality. They measurably improve performance, job satisfaction, and commitment.
Institutional Barriers & Their Effects: How can I talk to colleagues about these issues?
Institutional barriers (IBs) are policies, procedures, or situations that systematically disadvantage certain groups of people. IBs exist in any majority-minority group situation. When an initial ...
How Does Combating Overt Sexism Affect Women’s Retention?
Sexism has measurably harmful effects, but sexist behavior can be minimized. Instructors and supervisors can practice zero tolerance and facilitate positive peer interactions, and they ...
Pair Programming-in-a-Box: The Power of Collaborative Learning
Pair programming is a collaborative learning method in which students program in pairs instead of individually. This approach significantly improves college students’ programming competency and ...
How Do You Support Completion of Graduate Degrees and Engender Commitment to a Research Career?
Students most likely to complete their graduate studies are those who are viewed as junior colleagues in a positive relationship with their advisors and who ...
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work and Women Faculty in Computing
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work Technical women face challenges, from institutionalized bias to differences in communication styles to a lack of female role models. Developed ...
How Do You Retain Women through Collaborative Learning?
Collaborative learning can improve retention rates, critical thinking, appreciation of diversity, and development of social and professional skills. When implementing collaborative learning, match students roughly ...
How Can Unbiased Software Facilitate Girls’ Interest in IT?
Educational software can increase students’ motivation, interest, and academic achievement in science and math. To do so, it must be selected and utilized properly to ...
What Makes Electronic Mentoring Effective?
By removing time and location constraints, e-mentoring allows women to connect with many more women than face-to-face mentoring permits. It can also promote more open ...
How Do You Mentor Faculty Women?
Faculty mentoring programs help junior faculty to acclimate and promote relationships that can cover a broad range of topics. These programs enhance career commitment and ...
How Do You Mentor Technical Women at Work?
Paired mentors and protégés exchange advice for career advancement and reduced turnover. Formal mentoring programs may include organized activities that provide a framework for the ...