The IEEE Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) is calling for submissions of research papers, experience reports, position papers, panels, posters, and lightning talks.
The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Graduate Fellowships provide bachelor’s degree holders currently employed in industry the opportunity to return to academia to pursue their doctoral degrees. The CSGrad4Us Fellowship includes benefits for participants, including opportunities for funding and guidance from mentors.
The SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education is being held from March 13th – March 20th, 2021. The Symposium will include presentations, community discussions and workshops surrounding computer science and the teaching of computer science.
Recently, the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance published the 2020 State of Computer Science Education Report.
Richard E. Ladner, Principal Investigator of AccessComputing, writes an article on the status of persons with disabilities in the computer science pipeline. The barriers in data collection on persons with disabilities within the computer science pipeline is discussed in detail, as is the status of disabled persons within K-12 Education, undergraduate and graduate education, and the professions.