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2015 NCWIT Pioneer Award Scrapbook – Dr. Christine Darden

2015 NCWIT Summit – Summit Welcome

[upbeat guitar music] LUCY SANDERS: Hello, please come in, we’re about ready to get started. Please come in and take a seat. Whoa, that quieted ...

Janice Zdankus VP Enterprise Group at Hewlett-Packard Company

2015 NCWIT Summit – Collegiate Award

[applause] LUCY SANDERS: With that, let’s get to it. I mentioned all those awards and we’re gonna open and close the summit this year with ...

Dr. Amy Abernethy, MD PhD professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine

2015 NCWIT Summit – Pioneer Award

LUCY SANDERS: So now we’re going to move from the future of technology to really honor those who have helped us shape the discipline. And ...

Karen Ashcraft PhD - Professor of communication at UC Boulder

Conversations for Change: NCWIT Summit: The Glass Slipper: Leaning In… to the Evidence of Gender and Professions by Karen Ashcraft

[upbeat music] BOBBY SCHNABEL: Hi. As that picture says, I’m Bobby Schnabel. I’m one of the three co-founders of the National Center for Women ...

Peggy Johnson, Executive VP of Business Development with Microsoft

2015 NCWIT Summit – Q&A with Peggy Johnson

BOBBY SCHNABEL: And now we’ll continue on the theme of change leadership and in this case the next session is about corporate change leadership which ...

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This guide, created by the Extension Services program, helps you find resources for attracting undergraduate women into computing and retaining them through graduation, including tools ...

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Male Advocates and Allies: Promoting Gender Diversity in Technology Workplaces

This report, sponsored by NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance, provides an inside look into how men think about and advocate for diversity in the technical workplace. Drawing ...

Top 10 Ways of Recruiting High School Women into Your Computing Classes

Recruiting diverse students to computing requires that you spark their interest, build their confidence they can succeed, create a community where they feel like they ...

Diversity in Computing: Why It Matters and How Organizations Can Achieve It

Computing-related jobs are interesting, well-paying, secure, and abundant, so why aren’t more women working in this creative field that produces the technology that is central ...

How Can Encouragement Increase Persistence in Computing?

Encouragement increases self-efficacy, which is the belief in one’s ability to successfully perform a task. Because we are more likely to engage in tasks that ...

Talk with Faculty Colleagues About Stereotype Threat

This Talking Point Card explains stereotype threat and how it is triggered, shares examples of effects from stereotype threat, and suggests ways to create a ...