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...Seltzer has worked in admissions at both Harvard and Berkeley to help alleviate this problem. Seltzer also helps her women advisees to feel comfortable in computer science...
...Sometimes it's hard to be female in computer science," Lori J. Park '96 says. "I didn't take C.S. 50 so I only met [Seltzer] when I was applying to be a C.S. 50 [teaching fellow]. I felt pretty frustrated with C.S. at the time. I told this to [Seltzer], and she took time to explain things to me [and] have me attend her research group...
...Seltzer came back to Harvard and, more generally, to academia to teach. When asked what it's like to stand up in front of a group of Harvard students and teach them about computing, Seltzer--dressed in blue jeans and a t-shirt--rocks back in her computer chair and howls: "It is a trip. It is a real trip...
...standing in front of my first class and I was teaching C.S. 161 and it was just this really weird mind-warp thinking about how I used to view my professors when I was a student," Seltzer says. "Then it hit me, 'My God, these people take me seriously...
...Seltzer lets her experience at Harvard as an undergraduate inform her teaching today, particularly with grading. Grades have rapidly inflated since she was here in the early '80s, Seltzer says...