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Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24926.
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Appendix H

Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACM-W Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing
ACS American Community Survey
AP Advanced Placement
BHEW Board on Higher Education and Workforce
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics
BRAID Building, Recruiting, and Inclusion for Diversity
CAHSI Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions
CCF Computing and Communication Foundations
CE computer engineering
CIP Classification of Instructional Program
CIRP Cooperative Institutional Research Program
CIS computer and information science and support services
CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CMD-IT Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT
CPS Current Population Survey
CRA Computing Research Association
CRA-W Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
CS computer science
CSP Computer Science Principles
CSTA Computer Science Teachers Association
Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24926.
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CSTB Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
CUSTEMS Consortium for Undergraduate STEM Success
CyberSEES Cyber-Enabled Sustainability Science and Engineering
EE electrical engineering
HBCUs historically black colleges and universities
HERI Higher Education Research Institute
HEWI Higher Education and Workforce Initiative
IPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
IS information science
LAC liberal arts college
MOOC massive open online course
MSI minority-serving institution
NACE National Association of Colleges and Employers
NAE National Academy of Engineering
NAM National Academy of Medicine
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NCES National Center for Education Statistics
NCWIT National Center for Women & Information Technology
NDC non-doctoral college; refers to institutions with CS units that do not have Ph.D. programs
NSF National Science Foundation
PEDS Performance Evaluation of Distributed Systems
PLTL peer-led team learning
RCM Responsibility Center Management
S&E science and engineering
SaTC Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
SOC Standard Occupational Classification
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
TA teaching assistant
URM underrepresented minority
UTA undergraduate teaching assistant
Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24926.
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WebCASPAR Web-based Computer-Assisted Science Policy Analysis and Research System
XPS Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability
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The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining program resources at many institutions and causing concern among faculty and administrators about how best to respond to the rapidly growing demand. There is also significant interest about what this growth will mean for the future of CS programs, the role of computer science in academic institutions, the field as a whole, and U.S. society more broadly.

Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments seeks to provide a better understanding of the current trends in computing enrollments in the context of past trends. It examines drivers of the current enrollment surge, relationships between the surge and current and potential gains in diversity in the field, and the potential impacts of responses to the increased demand for computing in higher education, and it considers the likely effects of those responses on students, faculty, and institutions. This report provides recommendations for what institutions of higher education, government agencies, and the private sector can do to respond to the surge and plan for a strong and sustainable future for the field of CS in general, the health of the institutions of higher education, and the prosperity of the nation.

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