[OSCTC-planning] OSCTC meeting report 7/30/2014

[Katie Cunningham]

Great info below from the excellent Joe Welch (Hartnell CS professor)!
On Aug 7, 2014 6:58 PM, "Joe Welch" <jwelch at hartnell.edu> wrote:

> Hi Katie,
> What a fantastic initiative!
>
> The Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) for CA are listed at:
> http://www.hacu.net/assnfe/CompanyDirectory.asp
>
> Thoughts:
>
>    1. Evergreen Valley College (EVC) is a bay area college - generally
>    has energy in CS and has nearby CSU's which may be able to participate.
>    2. Hosting an OH event at a CC or CSU with energy and inviting area
>    CC's may lead to largest draw (as you did last Spr).
>    3. Mills College, Oakland CA, Women's college w/ CS major
>    4. MPICT, James Jones [jjones at mpict.org]and DSN Olivia Davalos [
>    odavalos at hartnell.edu] at Hartnell are excellent at bringing ICT
>    community together - may have more specific thoughts and recommendations.
>
> Thanks for the support on this!
> -Joe
>
>    1.
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>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Katie Cunningham <katieirenec at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> OpenHatch asked me about ideas for schools like Hartnell that are
>> majority under-represented group for fall OpenHatch events. I'm not sure if
>> I have good suggestions---maybe Gavilan?
>>
>> -Katie
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2)  Diversity Outreach
>>>>
>>>> In my last meeting report, I said:
>>>>
>>>> "Additionally, we will have a goal number of events to run at schools
>>>> that are majority under-represented group, for instance women's colleges,
>>>> community colleges, schools with majority black or latino populations,
>>>> schools with non-traditional students, etc.
>>>>
>>>> For Fall 2014 I tentatively suggest a goal of 5 events at schools that
>>>> meet these requirements.  That represents 1/3rd of our fall events.  I hope
>>>> to increase this percentage in future semesters."
>>>>
>>>> Of the 34 schools I contacted, two are community colleges, and three
>>>> are "majority minority" schools.  However, it is unlikely that all 5
>>>> schools will actually run events (though 2 are repeats and I feel confident
>>>> about them).  So I want to do additional outreach, including to at least
>>>> 1-2 women's colleges.  I have reached out to individuals for suggestions of
>>>> specific schools.  Feel free to suggest schools as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have two suggestions here.
>>>
>>> 1. Katie (who did massive heavy lifting to make
>>> http://hartnell.openhatch.org/ happen), do you have ideas for other
>>> institutions like Hartnell that can help us reach a more diverse audience?
>>>
>>
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