Resources for Women and Minorities at OSU

The following is a list of some of the resources available at OSU and online for women, African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans and Native Americans.

Organizations and Resources at OSU

• Office of Minority Affairs
• OSU Multicultural Center
• Diversity Initiative at Ohio State (links to diversity-oriented student groups and campus offices)
• ACM-W (ACM's committee on women in computing)
• Graduate
  • Information for Prospective Graduate Students
  • The Graduate Program in CSE at Ohio State
  • The Black Graduate and Professional Student Caucus
• Undergraduate
  • Undergraduate Financial Aid
  • Minority Engineering Program
  • Women In Engineering Program
  • Phi Sigma Rho - Undergraduate Engineering Sorority
    OSU's beta chapter of the national social sorority for women in engineering
  • Alpha Omega Epsilon - Undergraduate Engineering and Science Sorority
    OSU's lambda chapter of the international social and professional sorority
    for women in engineering, science, and related disciplines

Resources on the Web

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Includes Topic specifically on women, as well as many topics of general interest
• Funding Opportunities and Fellowship
  • NSF Graduate Fellowships, including awards specifically for women
  • American Association of University Women: Not CS specific, but includes CS fellowship information for women
  • Fellows Proposals for PhD-holding women: NSF Advance Program
• Links for minorities
  • Coalition to Diversify Computing
  • Institute for African-American ECulture - includes several interesting online papers and articles
  • Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
  • National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. - Includes fellowships and a mailing list
• Links for women
  • Rachel Adelson's "Live Wire" Column - Articles of interest to women
  • Distributed Mentoring Project for Women - research and mentoring for undergraduate women
  • Role Models in Computer Science - a database of short auto-biographies by women in computing (quick reading!)
  • GirlGeeks.org
  • EE Times - Women in Electrical Engineering
  • Eniac Programmers  -  In the beginning, all computer programmers were women...
  • ITT Technical - women in technology
  • Marketplace: Computer science: calling all women 
  • MentorNet's One-on-One Programs 
  • Women in computing - Wikipedia - A community supported reference, feel free to edit!
  •  Organizations for Girls/Women & Technology
    • AWC - Association for Women in Computing
    • CRAW - CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
    • Women in Technology International - Includes a free resume database!
    • Association for Computing Machinery: Committee on Women in Computing
    • Center for Women and Information Technology: ESTEEM
    • GREAT Gender Relations in Educational Applications of Technology
    • Geek Girl!
    • Girls Inc. - 140 Years of Celebrating Girlhood
    • Institute For Women and Technology Related Links
    • President's Council on Women's Issues at The Ohio State University
    • SIGCSE Committee on Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community
    • The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)
    • WAMC - Women in Science, Technology, Engineerin...
    • Women@CL - Home
    • WomensMedia.com
  •  Resources & Opportunities for Girls & Technology
  • Outreach events for girls, sponsored by the Ohio State University College of Engineering
  • CR2 Home Page - Computer's Rock 24/7, an after-school computer class for girls in the University Area
  • EducatingJane.com- Where smart girls go to learn!.
  • Gidget Pipeline Project - A consortium of programs designed to provide support to girls and women in computing from elementary school to professional careers.  [Check out the resources page on this site, too]
  • GEMS - Girls Engaged in Mathematics and Science
  • ITEST Learning Resource Center
  • Imaginary Lines 
  • p12.osu.edu--Needs Assessment 
  • Packetville
  • Tech Corps Ohio.org
  • Websites for girls and young women
  • You can be anything - Video  - This is a great "music video" designed to encourage young women to consider careers in technology fields.
  •  Gender Research - References 
    • CMU Working Papers 
    • Eccles - Understanding women's educational choices 
    • Female IT professionals cope in a male-dominated industry 
    • Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies 
    • GENDER AND ACHIEVEMENT-RELATED BELIEFS AMONG EN... 
    • Special Edition - Changing Girls' Attitudes About Computers 
    • The Nexus of Confidence and Interest 
    • TheEvolvingCSCulture_short.pdf 
    • The_Evolving_Culture_of_Computing_shorter.pdf 
    • Women in Computer Science Carnegie Mellon's Women@SCS - Research Opportunities 
    • Women in Engineering Freshman Seminar
  • Mailing Lists
    • Systers - Women in Computing
    • Systers-students
    • Systers-out - L/B/T/Q Women in Computing
    • Systers-of-Color - email systers-of-color@eecs.nwu.edu or systers-of-color-request@eecs.nwu.edu

    If you know of additional Web resources that we could add to this page, please email us.