BRAID: Building, Recruiting And Inclusion for Diversity

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The BRAID initiative launched in September 2014 in partnership with universities across the nation to increase the percentage of women and students of color majoring in computer science. Each university committed to a set of approaches to increase diversity within their computer science departments. Each department also committed to providing data for a research study that will document the progress made over the course of three years. This project is led by Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College and Telle Whitney, CEO of the Anita Borg Institute. Linda Sax, a UCLA professor, and Kate Lehman, a third-year Ph.D. student at UCLA lead the research study.

The BRAID initiative is led by the Anita Borg Institute and Harvey Mudd College, and funded by Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, CRA and NSF. The National Center for Women & Information Technology is a partner organization on the BRAID Initiative. They are providing consultation to BRAID institutions through their Extension Services program.

  1. Arizona State University
  2. Missouri University of Science and Technology
  3. New Jersey Institute of Technology
  4. University of California, Irvine
  5. University of Illinois at Chicago
  6. University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  7. University of Maryland, College Park
  8. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  9. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  10. University of North Texas
  11. University of Rochester
  12. University of South Carolina
  13. University of Texas at El Paso
  14. University of Vermont
  15. Villanova University

Here is a Report about the Dinner for High School Teachers, co-sponsored by BRAID:

NJIT Student Jinisha Patel Takes on Tech's Gender Gap

Jinisha Patel speaks to a group of New Jersey high school technology teachers and administrators during a special dinner hosted at NJIT. The dinner, sponsored jointly by computer science professor James Geller's Building Recruiting and Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) grant

Braid Conference 2016: Snowbird Utah

July 15, 2016 to July 17, 2016 the 2016 BRAID grantee conference was held at Snowbird Utah. Representatives from all BRAID institutions, the Anita Borg Institute, the scientific evaluation team of UCLA and from several companies attended the event.

BRAID meeting in Snowbird. Maria Presiding.

BRAID meeting in Snowbird.