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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Guzman, Indira R. Bell, Amy Gallivan, Mike Quesenberry, Jeria L. Cohoon, Joanne McGrath Creamer, Elizabeth G. Stanton, Jeffrey M.
Abstract	Excluding a few years surrounding the so called "dot.com boom" (i.e., 1998-2000) when people were pursuing IT majors as a likely way of making money, enrollments in information technology majors of students have continually dropped every year since 2001 (Babbitt, 2001; Frauenheim, 2004), suggesting that there is a general lack of interest in pursuing IT related majors among U.S. students (Vegso, 2005). On the other hand, there is growing evidence that it is critical for all organizations and countries to have qualified people who will work efficiently with current and emerging information technologies. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor provides employment projections with information about the labor market for the U.S. as a whole for 10 years in the future. According to the latest projections presented by the BLS, computer related occupations is one of the three groups of occupations that is projected to grow the fastest and to add more workers than other groups and account for three-quarters of the job growth until 2012 (Hecker, 2004). Based on this factual information, numerous studies conducted in higher education and other education levels have studied the general lack of interest, and have developed different research and academic programs to understand what can be done to increase the interest in young students to pursue information technology related majors The present panel is composed by academics who have been working in related issues for many years and some of them working in research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In this panel, they will discuss recent research findings and academic initiatives as well as provide practical suggestions on how to improve recruitment and retention in IT related majors based on their work.
Starting Page	40
Ending Page	42
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605580692
DOI	10.1145/1355238.1355247
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-04-03
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	It workforce Computer majors Recruitment and retention Minorities Gender
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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