Connecting Campus and Community through Computing at Brooklyn College

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• Connecting Campus and Community through Computing
  at Brooklyn College
• Lori Scarlatos
• Samir Chopra Simon Parsons
• Ira Rudowsky Elizabeth Sklar

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Brooklyn College of CUNY

• Princeton Reviews Top Ten Best Value College
  since its inclusion
• Commuter college gets nearly 75 of its students
  from local high schools

• Student body is 31 black, 11 latino, 60 female
• Many are first in their families to go to college

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Bridges in Brooklyn

• Focus on preparation, recruitment retention
• Summer institute for local HS students
• Computing preparatory course for HS seniors
• Interdisciplinary seminars in Core
• Alternative pathways into Computer Science
• Community outreach
• Undergraduate research
• Continuous mentoring

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Alternative Pathways into CS

• Applications-based, project-oriented emphasis
• Tracks provided in
• Bioinformatics and medical applications
• Business
• Graphics and multimedia
• Law
• Robotics and simulation
• Courses include
• Summer institute
• CORE courses
• Introductory computer science (CIS 1.5 and 15)

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Undergraduate Research and Community Outreach

• Research projects with faculty, early in
  students college career
• IT support interns work with local high schools
• Community computing consultancy has students work
  on community projects
• Showcase event highlights student work

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Mentoring and Community Building

• Social and academic support, through peer and
  faculty mentoring
• Monthly tea with the professors
• Student ambassadors help with high school summer
  institute, peer mentoring, and community outreach
  projects

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For more information http//www.sci.brookly
n.cuny.edu/bridges/