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Need:No longer is computing solely personal. Computing is a powerful medium for developing and deepening insights across STEM pursuits. Allowing opt-outs from curricular computing experience undermines the equity and empowerment priorities of higher ed. This project has researched what it takes – and what it gives – to make computing an undergraduate-universal experience.Guiding Question:This CAL, Computing-As-Literacy, project asks, “What is required – and what will result – if Computing1 is as ubiquitous as Composition1 across higher-ed’s landscape?” Outcomes:We are delighted that all of the project’s primary institutions have made computing undergraduate-universal. Broader-Impact and Intellectual-Merit Results:We have assessed the equity of curricular computing experience, across universal and non-universal institutions: the differences are stark and significant. An additional positive result is the empowerment of all programs and majors, which can claim equal ownership of computing, just as they do for student authorship of prose composition.
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Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
