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Media Highlight: Dalhousie aims to double female computer science students in 2018

Posted by Communications and Marketing on October 23, 2017 in General Announcements

Dalhousie University's faculty of computer science is aiming to double the number of female students entering its undergraduate programs by 2018.

The faculty's dean said women currently make up 16 to 25 per cent of the computer science students, depending on the program, and they want to change that.

"[It's] really important that computer scientists, the people who are literally designing the world that we're moving into, represent the diversity of our society in terms of values and perspective history and gender," said Andrew Rau-Chaplin.

Read the full article at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-computer-science-doubling-number-of-female-students-1.4362576