DIMACS, the Douglass Residential College, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Computer Science welcome the second cohort of students to the Douglass-SAS-DIMACS Computer Science Living-Learning Community for Women, or CS LLC for short. The incoming CS LLC class consists of 20 first-year women who elected to join the LLC. Among them are 17 students from around NJ, one student from NY state, and two students from China.

The CS LLC is an immersive educational experience aiming to enhance the recruitment and retention of women in CS. Students in the CS LLC live together as a community associated with Douglass Residential College(DRC). To our knowledge, it is the first living-learning community devoted exclusively to women in computer science.

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