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Out of the Loop: Why So Few African-American, Latino/a, and Female High School Students Are Learning Computer Science and What To Do About It
University of California, Los Angeles
Jane Margolis, a social scientist who has
worked to bridge the gender and minority gap in computer science and co-author
of the widely acclaimed book
Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, will be the inaugural
speaker in the
Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society
Speaker Series. Her talk will include references to her recent research in
inner city Los Angeles high schools.
Margolis is a researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Her recent research
concerns the under-representation of students of color and females in high
school computer science courses. She has taken an active, research-based role
in creating programs for high school teachers, administrators and students
aimed at increasing computer science enrollments for women and minorities.
She also has been awarded several National Science Foundation grants aimed at
broadening participation in computing, especially for women and minorities.
Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing was published in 2002 and
was based on the research she conducted while at Carnegie Mellon University
with co-author Allan Fisher. The book documents how males tend
to dominate computing, the societal dangers of the under-representation of
women in computing, and what can be done to recruit and retain more women in
computer science.
In 2003, Margolis received the University Continuing Education Award for
Literature for "Unlocking the Clubhouse". She received the Computing Research
Association's
A. Nico Habermann Award
for Diversity in Computing in 2005. Margolis, who received her EdD from Harvard
University in 1990, also is a member of the Social Science Advisory Board of the
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT),
a national organization that is housed in the ATLAS Building, which opened in
August 2006. NCWIT's mission is to ensure that women are fully represented in
the world of information technology and computing.
The ATLAS Speaker Series is supported by a generous gift from ATLAS Institute
Board member Idit Harel Caperton, CEO and founder of
MaMaMedia Inc., and her
daughter Anat Harel, a 2003 CU graduate who was an ATLAS
Technology, Arts and Media student. The series brings distinguished visitors to
the ATLAS Institute at CU-Boulder. Speakers are selected to embody the ATLAS
Institute's multidisciplinary concentration in technology, learning and
society, and will span and combine technical, societal and digital art and
media issues.
Sponsored by the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS). See "Renowned researcher Dr. Jane Margolis featured in new ATLAS Speaker Series" for more information.
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