The Department of
Computer Science at Colorado State University is honored to be accepted as a 2019
BRAID Affiliate. The Building, Recruiting, and Inclusion for Diversity initiative, co-led by AnitaB.org and Harvey Mudd College, launched in September
2014 in partnership with 15 universities across the nation. BRAID provides
support to computer science departments to help increase the percentage of
women and underrepresented minority students in their undergraduate computing
programs. Participants implement successful, tested strategies developed at
BRAID Beacon Schools - institutions leading the way in gender diversity within
their CS departments. BRAID Affiliates are institutions that have committed to
increasing the diversity of their computing departments but do not receive
funding through the BRAID initiative. Affiliates participate in BRAID for one
year, during which they learn best practices from BRAID schools. They also
participate in the annual BRAID Summit in July which gathers together all the
BRAID stakeholders for two and a half days of discussion, ideation, and
inspiration.