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Broadening participation: a community college strategy

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W. Richards Adrion,

Renee FallAuthors Info & Claims

TAPIA '09: The Fifth Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference: Intellect, Initiatives, Insight, and Innovations

Pages 46 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/1565799.1565811

Published: 01 April 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) is an alliance of 15 Massachusetts public campuses that focuses on community colleges because of their role as a gateway to careers and further higher education for underserved populations. CAITE outreach extends into four regions that have high percentages of students who are under-represented in the knowledge and innovation economy. Building on two years' experience and extensive data, we are strengthening our efforts to develop nurturing educational pathways and to ensure that students are adequately prepared to enter them. CAITE can serve as a transferable model for statewide collaborations.

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Aspray WAspray W(2016)The Broadening Participation in Computing AlliancesParticipation in Computing10.1007/978-3-319-24832-5_3(53-102)Online publication date: 2-Mar-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24832-5_3
Adrion WFall RMatos MPeterfreund ALewandowski GWolfman SCortina TWalker E(2010)Integrating evaluation into program developmentProceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1734263.1734273(27-31)Online publication date: 10-Mar-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1734263.1734273

Index Terms

Broadening participation: a community college strategy
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
    2. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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TAPIA '09: The Fifth Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference: Intellect, Initiatives, Insight, and Innovations

April 2009

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ISBN:9781605582177

DOI:10.1145/1565799

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Aspray WAspray W(2016)The Broadening Participation in Computing AlliancesParticipation in Computing10.1007/978-3-319-24832-5_3(53-102)Online publication date: 2-Mar-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24832-5_3
Adrion WFall RMatos MPeterfreund ALewandowski GWolfman SCortina TWalker E(2010)Integrating evaluation into program developmentProceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1734263.1734273(27-31)Online publication date: 10-Mar-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1734263.1734273

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