Former Director: Women@SCS and SCS4ALL, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

• SCS4ALL -- an SCS wide, graduate and undergraduate organization working to promote diversity in the School of Computer Science, and to broaden interest, understanding, and diversity in computing fields through outreach.
• Women@SCS -- an SCS wide organization working to build academic, social, and professional opportunities that promote and encourage a more diverse community.
• BiasBusters @ CMU is modelled on Google's Bias Busting @ Work program, and developed in concert with Google. The program was developed to engage over issues of bias (unconscious bias especially), diversity and inclusion. Sessions are led by volunteers from the CMU community who have been trained as facilitators.
• OurCS -- a 3 day research-focused workshop at CMU providing opportunities for a more diversity community to explore research.
• SCS Representative for NCWIT and Pacesetters and AccessComputing
• TechNights -- Creative Technology Nights is a program of workshops encouraging more middle school girls to explore creative technologies.
• TechNights Movie
• School of Computer Science Outreach Roadshow (demonstration version)
  
  

School of Computer Science (SCS)

• School of Computer Science
• Computer Science Department
  
  

Research and Papers

Carol Frieze gained her doctorate in the field of "Cultural Studies in Computer Science" from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Thesis title: "The Critical Role of Culture and Environment as Determinants of Women's Participation in Computer Science". Her research interests include the culture of computing, broadening participation in computing fields, diversity issues, gender myths and stereotypes.

New Book! Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World
editors Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry, Cambridge University Press, 2020

                      

                                     

BOOK: Kicking Butt in Computer Science:
Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University
Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry,
Dog Ear Publishing, Nov. 2015

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Press Release

 

Check out the book post on the Google re: Work Blog!

• "How Computer Science at CMU Is Attracting and Retaining Women", Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry, Communications of the ACM. Feb. 2019, Vol.62 No.2, Pages 23-26
• "Where Are You Really From?": Mitigating Unconscious Bias on Campus, Carol Frieze, Diana Marculescu, Jeria Quesenberry, Gerry Katilius, and Jonathan Reynolds, in 2018 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), IEEE 2018
• From Difference to Diversity: Including Women in the Changing Face of Computing, Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry, Proceedings of the 44th SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2013
• Diversity or Difference? New Research Supports the Case for a Cultural Perspective on Women in Computing, Carol Frieze, Jeria Quesenberry, Elizabeth Kemp and Anthony Velaszquez, Journal of Science Education and Technology, September, 2011
• The Images of Computing: Engaging Undergraduates in the Broad Issues of Computer Science, Carol Frieze, Proceedings of the 42nd SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2011
• A Cultural Perspective on Gender Diversity in Computing, Lenore Blum, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan and Bernardine Dias, in Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents eds. by Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, and Peggy S. Meszaros, AK Peters, Ltd., 2007
• Culture and Environment as Determinants of Women’s Participation in Computing: Revealing the ‘Women-CS Fit’”, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan, Lenore Blum and Bernardine Dias, Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2006
• Diversifying the Images of Computer Science: Carnegie Mellon Students Take on the Challenge! Carol Frieze and Emily Treat. Proceedings of the 2006 WEPAN conference.
• As the Culture of Computing Evolves, Similarity can be the Difference, Lenore Blum and Carol Frieze, Gender and IT issue of Frontiers, 26:1 2005
• In a More Balanced Computer Science Environment, Similarity is the Difference and Computer Science is the Winner, Lenore Blum and Carol Frieze, May 2005 edition of Computing Research News, Vol. 17/No. 3
• Diversifying the Images of Computer Science: Undergraduate Women take on the Challenge! Carol Frieze, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005, p. 397-400
• Building an Effective Computer Science Student Organization: The Carnegie Mellon Women@SCS Action Plan by Carol Frieze and Lenore Blum, Inroads SIGCSE Bulletin Women in Computing; vol.34.no.2, 2002, June, p. 74-78

Recent Awards

• 2017 CRA A. Nico Habermann Award
• 2016 AccessComputing Capacity Building Award
• 2015 Carnegie Mellon's Mark Gelfand Service Award for Educational Outreach
  

CREU (Computing Research Association)

CREU Computing Research Association's Program: Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates

Disability Resources Videos: Best Practices for Accommodations

• A Good Time to Talk
• At the Last Minute
• Flexible Assignment Completion Discussion

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