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Goal 1.3 Potential for Growth

For students and entry-level staff, recruitment should be organized around practices forjudging growth potential, with a recognitionthat observed past performance may not alonecapture the potential of an entry-level applicant, given differential opportunities anddifferential degrees of difficulty encountered.

SEAS Blind Grading

A guide on implementing blind grading onvarious software platforms used at SEAS is being developed. Additionally,Women in Computer Science (WiCS) hosts avariety of community events to encouragecollaboration among all levels of studentspursuing a concentration in computerscience (CS). As a result of an area-wide diversity committee, CS also launched a freshman advising initiative to provide eachfemale student who indicates a primary interest in CS with a CS faculty member as a freshman adviser. This required collaboration with admissions and faculty.

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