Educating educators

Abstract

We are Susan Luks, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at University of Detroit Mercy in Michigan, and Suzanne Pawlan Levy, Instructor of Computer Science at Allan Hancock College in California. We are two women who teach programming languages in small institutions: two women who have remarkably similar stories to tell about our experiences of isolation and struggle that resulted from the addition of a course in Ada Programming in our institutions' curricula: two women who resolved our problems of stumbling (by different elements of chance) into the Ada community.