{"id":9310,"date":"2021-08-20T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:04:49","slug":"harvey-mudds-computer-science-program-now-a-harvard-kennedy-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2021\/08\/20\/harvey-mudds-computer-science-program-now-a-harvard-kennedy-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd\u2019s Computer Science Program Now a Harvard Kennedy Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College\u2019s successful effort to raise the percentage of women majoring in computer science is now a featured case study in the <a href=\"https:\/\/case.hks.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Kennedy School Case Program<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest repository of case studies for educators in government and public policy.<\/p>\n<p>The case study, <a href=\"https:\/\/case.hks.harvard.edu\/harvey-mudd-college-promoting-women-in-computer-science-through-inclusive-education\/\">\u201cHarvey Mudd College: Promoting Women in Computer Science Through Inclusive Education,\u201d<\/a> details the steps faculty took to redesign the core CS introductory course, engage students and incorporate inclusive pedagogy, raising the percentage of women CS majors from 10% to over 50% in less than 10 years. The case study also includes a description of how faculty assessed the effectiveness of the redesign and pedagogical changes.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mudd is now partnering with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anitab.org\/\">AnitaB.org<\/a>\u00a0to share best practices with larger colleges and universities through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anitab.org\/braid-building-recruiting-and-inclusion-for-diversity\/\">BRAID\u00a0(Building Recruiting And Inclusion for Diversity)<\/a>\u00a0initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College\u2019s successful effort to raise the percentage of women majoring in computer science is now a featured case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":9311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"class_list":["post-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}