Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!dana@ernie.Berkeley.EDU From: dana@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Dana Bergen) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Special programs Message-ID: <11956@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 88 23:35:23 GMT References: <11101@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11165@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11535@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11689@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu In article <11689@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> fester@math.berkeley.edu writes: > >So that a program which merely *admits* women >and then says, essentially, "you are entirely on your own" is not >neccessarily doing much good. Does the Computer Science Re-entry >Program have resources available for such women (e.g. tutoring, early >advising if advising is nonstandard in the CS department, etc.) ? I agree 100% that admission to programs is not enough. Absolutely, the most important aspect for me about the Re-entry Program was the support provided to the students. The program provided lists of people to call (and introductions) for all types of advice (e.g. faculty members, graduate students, other reentry students, graduates who were out working at jobs, administrators, etc.); arranged free tutoring (with women tutors whenever possible); organized lunches to make it easy for us to connect with one another; and generally helped us not to get "lost" in a very large and intimidating department. There is a network of reentry program alums and other people currently or formerly associated with the program in some way, most of whom are very willing to help out current students. This is one of the best benefits of this type of program. Dana dana@ernie.berkeley.edu ucbvax!ernie!dana