Dear fellow TXCS alumni & friends -

I hope you are doing well during this extraordinary time.

I am so excited to tell you that the TXCS community has been very generous---so far, we have brought in over $30,000 for the Texas Computer Science Endowment for Change. We surpassed our $25,000 goal, and we are exceedingly grateful for your decision to lend your support to our students and to this campaign. 

We are working to increase the number of students from underrepresented backgrounds who receive departmental support as they work towards their academic goals. This fund will help recruit and support those students, and we are so grateful for your excitement and interest! We have 3 days left to reach our goal of $40,000. If you haven’t had a chance to donate yet, we hope you’ll consider helping us grow this scholarship fund so that, together, we can better recruit and support our students from underrepresented backgrounds.

The education I received at TXCS has shaped my life and career, and I suspect that you feel the same.  I hope you'll help us provide those same opportunities (and support pursuing them!) to students from underrepresented backgrounds. In doing so, you not only aid our students, but you change the face of the computer science field and create a diverse, thriving community for all exceptional students. 

Thank you so much!  And I hope to see you in the halls of GDC someday :)

Alison

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Alison N. Norman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Instruction

Thank you to our genrous donors for helping us surpass our $25,000 goal! 

We are excited to share that because we have had so much interest from our CS and UT community to support scholarships for diversity we will be extending our campaign an extra 15 days! 

We are less than 10% away from reaching our goal and to go along with this amazing progress UT News recently published an article sharing the story of the creation of Texas Computer Science Endowment for Change!

In collaboration with TXCS, Audra Collins and América Quistiano brought to life the Texas Computer Science Endowment for Change to support diversity and inclusion efforts and fund opportunities for underserved students with a passion for technology.

Check out the full article here! https://bit.ly/3nGWB8L. 

Thank you to all of our donors for helping us making it to 91% of our goal! 

We still need help reaching 100% and you can help by making a meaningful contribution today!