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The Percentage Project is a nonprofit that aims to foster inclusivity and belonging at universities

03/28/2024

We are thrilled to launch 🎉[ ]! 🎉 Over the coming two weeks, our campaign will showcase a series of enlightening statistics across various categories, complemented by captivating student portraits from different schools.

Our focus today zeroes in on the crucial theme of confidence in pursuing studies in technology and related fields. Behind every groundbreaking technological advancement, there stands a united team of allies. These individuals champion each other’s capabilities, cultivating an atmosphere where confidence flourishes on the foundation of mutual respect and collective achievements.

We invite you to delve into the statistics and photographs we’ve shared. The statistics, in aggregate, are from an anonymous survey taken by 500+ computer science students across 10 schools. 🏫 Each student chooses a statistic based on the portion of their school’s population who took the survey to be added to their portrait. For the aggregate data, please see our website!

Reflect on the impact of confidence on both yourself and those around you. Engage with us in this meaningful conversation! To learn more about our survey and campaign process, go to our instagram profile and check out our pinned posts.

03/21/2024

📣Announcing Our 2024 Campaign Launch Date: March 28th!📣
This year, we’re embracing the theme: “Allyship in the Face of Adversity.” From the individual trials of macroeconomic fluctuations to widespread layoffs in the tech sector, the obstacles before us have multiplied. Yet, in these times, our collective resilience shines brighter, forging bonds of unity stronger than any challenge!

In 2023-2024, we saw our impact grow. 3 new campuses have joined our initiative, and 11 campuses have contributed to our extensive data collection effort. We will also be showcasing projects beyond traditional portraits.

Share Your Excitement! 🎉Drop your favorite emoji in the comments if you’re as thrilled as we are about making a change together.

03/12/2024

Join the movement! Want to plan an advocacy project and bring the Percentage Project to your school? 🚨 We are now recruiting Campus Directors for the 2024-25 cycle! 🚨 This is a unique leadership opportunity to make a difference on your campus and work closely with department leadership. We have worked with many student organizations such as women in computing or Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers in the past and delivered successful campaigns across 15+ schools country-wide. Must be enrolled in a secondary academic institution and have completed first year by September 2024.

03/08/2024

Celebrating and ! Every year, the Percentage Project proud to partner with numerous women in computer science and engineering campus groups. We see many women and non-binary students participating in our portrait gallery. In addition, we want to highlight some books and organizations that support women and nonbinary technologists in every stage of career and personal development. Here’s to the incredible women who are changing the world, one line of code at a time. 💻👩🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻👩🏽‍💻👩🏾‍💻👩🏿‍💻🌐

03/01/2024

Alice is our Campus Director this year for Duke University 💙! Duke and its Women in Technology group has been a long time participant and we are grateful that Alice is continuing our presence on campus. Can’t wait to see more photos from Duke students this year!

02/28/2024

Catherine (Sirui) is our Campus Director from UCLA 🐻 and she has been running the campaign for the past two years! As she noted, UCLA has many student organizations that help students grow their professional skills beyond learning in the classroom. We are extra grateful that she and her team also chose to dedicate their time to the Percentage Project!

02/21/2024

Palvi is our current Campus Director for UC Santa Barbara 🌊 ! After a successful first campaign last year, we are so excited that club leaders from UCSB Women In CS are continuing this partnership. Palvi is a third year student studying CS. Thank you Palvi for bringing the project to UCSB again! 💪🏼

02/16/2024

Our newest Campus Director is Betty from University of Washington Seattle 💜 🌸! She reached out to the Percentage Project and thus began the collaboration process between Women in Computing .wic . We are so excited to work with you and thank you for bringing our project to a brand new campus in the pacific northwest!

01/16/2024

This is Christa’s 4th year serving as the Campus Director for UPenn!! Starting as a freshman, she has been coordinating with to ensure that the project is successful every year, from growing survey responses to producing beautiful student portraits. ✨ Thank you for being the longest serving CD in percentage project history ✨

01/12/2024

Many of our Campus Directors had been participants of the campaign before taking on the leadership roles at their campuses, and Bella is a great example of this! She is our CD for Brown University 🐻 🌞, a campus that has been involved with us for the past 4 years!! Besides concentrating in Computer Science, Bella is also a competitive swimmer. Thank you for your continued support of the Percentage Project over the years and we are so grateful to have you!

01/09/2024

For the first post in the new year, we want to introduce Michelle Zheng, our campus director for Yale University! Michelle and the student org Women & Gender Minorities in Computer Science are bringing the Percentage Project to Yale for the first year ever and expanding our presence on the East Coast. We are so grateful and excited to have you!

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http://www.percentageproject.com/

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Our Mission

The Percentage Project is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that aims to foster inclusivity and belonging at universities nationwide through data-driven advocacy. Our vision is to help every person of every background embrace their diversity and feel a sense of belonging in the field that they pursue.

Our mission, thereby, is to build a movement that:

brings to light the experiences of post-secondary education students in computer science-related fields,

encourages reflection and conversation on the state of students of all backgrounds,

and uses data to drive progress that fosters a culture of inclusion and belonging in post-secondary education.

Our goals are twofold: 1. to act as a non-institution, third-party whose role is to use data analysis to shed light on diversity and inclusion in Computer Science and Engineering departments, and 2. to promote reflection and conversation on the state of students from any and all backgrounds in these fields.

In 2018, the project began as an artistic, visual outlet for data collected from an anonymous survey of Computer Science students each year. By showcasing data alongside the faces of these students, we aim to encourage reflection on shared experiences, the situations of minorities affected by instances of microaggressions and discrimination, and possibilities of alleviating these instances.

Over the last few years, we have been developing and implementing our own approach to data-driven advocacy. By collecting climate data on students studying computer science-related fields, The Percentage Project analyzes similarities and differences in student experience amongst groups of different backgrounds. The results feed into a three-pronged approach to advocacy.

Students

We are fundamentally a student-driven movement. We believe that students should have a say in actively shaping their educational experience, and so they should be informed. Every year, we work with student leaders to run a social media campaign that puts faces to these statistics. By creating portraits with the statistics, we create an online gallery that sheds light on the challenges of underrepresented students and inspires the community to take action.

Departments

It is critical that our data drives progress. Thus, we believe in keeping departments informed with updated and detailed analysis of the climate at their campuses. Identifying key areas and challenges will help fuel data-driven decisions that effectively alleviate the circumstances and eventually close the gap.

Everyone

We are stronger together. Our focus is on connecting campuses from all over to advocate for equity in education. And it’s not a competition - it’s a collaborative effort between schools towards a common goal: diversity and inclusion. In this vein, we aggregate all data from all participating campuses to form a benchmark that drives accountability in technology education.