Dr. Jackson was recently selected as a best paper for RESPECT 2020.

The paper selected was titled: The iAAMCS Ecosystem: Retaining Blacks/African-Americans in CS PhD Programs. The paper was written by Dr. Jerlando F.L Jackson, Dr. Jeremy A. M. Waisome. and Dr. Juan E. Gilbert.

In addition to being awarded Best of RESPECT Paper, the authors are presenting in the RESPECT Sister Session for SIGCSE 2020. Their presentation will be on the information and research addressed in the paper. This conference is the largest computing education conference worldwide organized by ACM Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). The participants include nearly 2000 researchers, educators, and practitioners interested in improving computing education in k-12 and higher education.

Read the paper here