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SENIOR EXECUTIVES FROM LEADING COMPANIES AND UNIVERSITIES SEEK TO INCREASE NUMBER OF WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTING

February 19, 2013

February 19, 2013 – Boulder, Colo. – The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) today introduces the new participants of NCWIT Pacesetters, a fast-track program that seeks to radically increase the number of women in technology and computing.

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Compulsory computing?

November 14, 2012
Daily Californian
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/11/14/compulsory-computing/
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The Technology of Massive Open Online Courses

November 5, 2012
MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506326/the-technology-of-massive-open-onlin...
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STEM Pathways

November 1, 2012
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/01/new-focus-helping-community-colleg...
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Grad schools add big-data degrees

October 8, 2012
ComputerWorld
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232106/Grad_schools_add_big_data_degrees
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SYMANTEC PARTNERS WITH NCWIT TO SUPPORT WOMEN IN TECH

October 2, 2012
Businesswire
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Seed Fund Supports College Groups' Efforts to Recruit More Girls and Women to Computing Majors

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Bias Persists for Women of Science, a Study Finds

September 24, 2012
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/bias-persists-against-women-of-science...
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Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences

September 16, 2012
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/education/online-mentoring-program-to-encourag...
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Numbers of Women Engineering Undergraduates, Graduate Students Increase at Michigan Tech

September 13, 2012
Michigan Tech News
http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2012/september/story77894.html
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UC Berkeley instructors develop new computer science course

September 10, 2012
The Daily Californian
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/09/09/uc-berkeley-professors-develop-computer-scien...
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