{"670302":{"#nid":"670302","#data":{"type":"news","title":"OMSCS Executive Director Recognized for Building Access to Computing Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Joyner has been named as the inaugural holder of the Zvi Galil PEACE Chair. Joyner is\u0026nbsp;executive director of OMSCS and Online Education for the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe chair is named in honor of former Dean of Computing Zvi Galil. It honors a faculty member whose work substantially contributes to building access to computing to people of color, women, and other students from underserved communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Galil Pervasive Equitable Access for Computing Education\u0026nbsp;(PEACE) Chair is a tribute to Galil\u2019s legacy and a challenge to create increasingly diverse and equitable approaches to CS education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/647877\/new-endowed-chair-honors-inclusion-and-diversity\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;New Endowed Chair Honors Inclusion and Diversity]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOMSCS certainly fits that bill. Student enrollment in the Online Master of Science in Computer Science program is 11.6 percent underrepresented minorities. By way of comparison, only 4.1 percent of the students in the on-campus master\u0027s student programs are underrepresented minorities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022David Joyner has contributed significantly to the success of OMSCS,\u0022 said Galil. \u0022He has been teaching four courses per semester, two of which he created, all of which receive excellent teaching evaluations. And that\u0027s in addition to running the program!\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Zvi Galil PEACE Chair recognizes not just David Joyner specifically but also a more significant commitment in the College to expanding access to computing education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat access matters for two reasons. The first is simple numbers: there are more than a million unfilled computing jobs in the U.S. Without underrepresented groups, there will never be enough computer scientists to fill them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second is that underrepresented minorities deserve the same access to the computing boom as other populations. According to the McKinsey Institute, the employment gap will cause Black households to miss out on a cumulative $350 million in tech-job wages by 2030.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFocusing on access has also allowed the College of Computing and Georgia Tech to improve related practices and systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s always remarkable to me is that the steps we take to expand access have so many additional benefits,\u0022 Joyner said. \u0022It makes our teaching better, lets us invest in more sophisticated tools and platforms, and allows us to drive down the cost of education. It\u0027s this beautiful cycle: expanding access means more students, which leads to greater economies of scale, which leads to lower costs, which expands access even further.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOMSCS has even led to a further expansion of the College\u0027s online offerings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In 2017, David created, and has since been teaching, GT\u0027s first online undergraduate course,\u0022 said former Dean Zvi Galil.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/top-ranked-online-courses-reaching-students-around-world\u0022\u003EThe course \u2013\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIntroduction to Computing Using Python\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2013 is deemed the highest-rated course\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;taken by about half the students in the course. I heartily congratulate David as the first incumbent of the Zvi Galil PEACE Chair.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMore than 100 individuals donated to endow the Galil PEACE Chair. \u003C\/span\u003EWith support like this from \u003Cspan\u003Ealumni, parents, friends, corporations, and foundations\u003C\/span\u003E, Georgia Tech is securing the resources that will help achieve the most ambitious goals in the Institute\u0027s history as part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/transformingtomorrow.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETransforming Tomorrow:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe Campaign for Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor his resolute commitment to advancing CS equity, #GTComputing\u0027s David Joyner has been named as the inaugural Zvi Galil PEACE Chair. The Galil Pervasive Equitable Access for Computing Education (PEACE) Chair is a tribute to Galil\u2019s legacy and a challenge to create increasingly diverse and equitable approaches to CS education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For his resolute commitment to advancing CS equity, #GTComputing\u0027s David Joyner has been named as the inaugural Zvi Galil PEACE Chair."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-10-09 17:50:39","changed_gmt":"2023-11-08 13:53:26","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671988":{"id":"671988","type":"image","title":"david-joyner-omscsConf-2023.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EOMSCS Executive Director David Joyner speaks with a colleague at the 2023 OMSCS Conference. 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