SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS IN RECRUITING WOMEN INTO TECHNOLOGY COURSES - A CASE STUDY

This purpose of this paper is to describe efforts of recruiting women into computer technology courses. It illustrates the experience of one technology program in a university located in Western Pennsylvania and their successful efforts into recruiting women into a technology course. The Technology Support and Training (TST) program at Eberly College of Business (ECOBIT) - Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) teaches a technology capstone course for their students in a graduate program. This course was successful in attracting more female students to the course, and changing the perception of women enrolled in it about technology courses, thus the experience of this program is illustrated in this paper. The paper begin by describing the problem of low enrollment of women in technology courses, it gives reasons and suggest remedies for this problem. It then describes the experience of the TST department at IUP in recruiting women into their course.