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Broadening participation

Data Trends on Minorities and People with Disabilities in Computing

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Valerie Taylor, Richard Ladner

December 1, 2011

Seeking a comprehensive view of minority student demographics to determine what programs and policies are needed to promote diversity.

Modeling minorities based on Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans seems like an incomplete model. How do Asian and Indian minorities compare? Are those minorities overrepresented?

— Ben Haley, November 29, 2011

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