CS department grapples with collaboration policy, diversity
(World News Science)

This is the second of two stories examining the workings of the University´s largest concentration - the computer science department - its value and its challenges. Like many computer science students, Chelsey Serrano ´22 is finishing up a two-part CS intro sequence with help from close friends, who struggle together through late nights and stressful deadlines. But, as a first-generation and female student, Serrano more often than not finds herself in the minority; data shows that in 2018, close to 30 percent of CS degrees were awarded to women and 12 percent to historically underrepresented groups on campus - lagging behind the increasingly diverse demographics of the student body. As the...