Work In Progress: Technology Leadership Institute: Enhancing the Pipeline for Blacks in Technology Fields

Author

Groover, Tonya R. ; Kabara, Joseph F. ; Falk, Andrew

Author_Institution

Technol. Leadership Inst., Pittsburgh Univ., PA

fYear

2006

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In 2004 African Americans (12.2% of the population) received 3.1% of the total bachelor degrees in computer science in the United States. The Technology Leadership Institute (TLI) is designed to identify the social, economic & academic barriers that inhibit these students from pursuing 4-year degrees in computer science. The goal of the TLI is to encourage students to take an interest in the computer and information sciences and to build the knowledge and skills necessary to gain admission into competitive computer science programs

Keywords

computer science education; educational institutions; information science education; social aspects of automation; African Americans; Technology Leadership Institute; academic barriers; computer science; economic barriers; information science; social barriers; technology field; Career development; Computer displays; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Engineering profession; Mathematics; Pipelines; computer science; high school; minority; pre-college; technology;

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.2006.322501

Filename

4117201