A comprehensive survey on the status of social and professional issues in United States undergraduate computer science programs and recommendations

A national web-based survey was administered to 700 undergraduate computer science programs in the United States as part of a stratified random sample of 797 undergraduate computer science programs. The 251 program responses (36% response rate) regarding social and professional issues are presented. This article describes the demographics of the respondents, presents results concerning whether programs teach social and professional issues, how social and professional issues are integrated, perceptions of computer science faculty regarding the importance of social and professional issues, pedagogies used to teach social and professional issues, and what specific social and professional topics have been included in the computer science curriculum. Additionally, we (a) provide suggestions for computer science programs regarding the integration of social and professional issues into the computer science curriculum, (b) suggest ways to encourage more social and professional coverage in computer science programs, pedagogy, and (c) recommend what social and professional topics should be included in future computer science curriculum reports.