This is a form designed to help facilitate check-ins between PhD students and their advisors. 

This form has been in use by CSD since 2020 as part of their semesterly student-advisor check-in process, and it has received positive reviews from PhD students!

CS-JEDI: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Computer Science is an introductory DEI course taken by all first-year PhD students in the CMU CS Department (course number 15-996). 

It was designed primarily by a large team of CMU CS PhD students (see the acknowledgements section of our paper linked below for a list of contributors). It is also primarily taught by PhD students. As such, the course is tailored to the PhD student experience, teaching core DEI topics through the lenses of CS, academia, and STEM. Here is the course website.

Spring 2022 was the inaugural offering of the full course, on which we conducted an IRB-approved study. It has since been taught three more times. This SIGCSE 2023 paper describes the curriculum in detail, offers quantitative data on the efficacy of the course, and describes future improvements that will be made.

For those who want to teach it: The CS-JEDI curriculum is open-sourced under a Creative Commons license, and it is designed for adaptability to new contexts, even outside of CS and academia. Others are free adopt the materials (either in part or in full) at their own institutions. If you want to do so, materials from past iterations can be found on this page of our website. In addition to teaching materials, this download includes reference documentation on teaching logistics (see the teaching manual) and implementing the course in new contexts (see the sustainable implementation plan).

If you have questions or want to discuss implementing the course at your own institution, please feel free to send me an email.

These are lecture notes on the connection between Brouwer's Fixed-Point Theorem.