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From: dana@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Dana Bergen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Special programs
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Date: 11 Jul 88 23:35:23 GMT
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In article <11689@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> fester@math.berkeley.edu writes:
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>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
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