Work in Progress: Increasing Recruitment of Native American Students in Computing Programs

Author

Bhajaria, Nishant J. ; Gannod, Gerald C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

8

Abstract

While Native Americans make up 6.9% of the population of Arizona, they comprise only 1.9% of the student body at Arizona State University. Additionally, only about 1.9% of the students in Computing and Engineering programs at Arizona State University are Native American. From 1994 to 2005, Native American students constituted between 2% and 3% of Computer Science and Engineering enrollment. Clearly, Native American students are under-represented in computing and engineering in Arizona. This paper describes a curriculum that we are developing to help increase the recruitment of Native American students in the computing programs at Arizona State University

Keywords

computer science education; social aspects of automation; Native American students; computing programs; educational curriculum; Bridges; Computer science; Computer science education; Cultural differences; Demography; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering profession; Recruitment; Taxonomy; Computer science; Enrollment; Native American; Undergraduate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 36th Annual

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0256-5

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2006.322296

Filename

4116899