description: "Computing for the Social Good in Education (CSG-Ed) focuses on the methods for producing computing graduates who are focused on using theircomputing education towards the benet of society. In this year's pre-symposium, we invite our fellow educators to reect with us upon why we becameeducators and engage in a rigorous inquiry designed to assess why computing is perceived as a lucrative career choice, but low on the list of providing a means to improve society; especially among women and underrepresented minorities. If this is the perception, \"what are we educators doing that may becontributing or acquiescing to this perception?\". The proposed symposium will explore this question and \"how we can shift computing education to change this perception?\". This session will rst entail a facilitated exploration of how we, the computing education eld, got to this state. The topics will include:the economic pressures on the education sector, how our curricula have inuenced student aspirations, and the tension between the need for a liberallyeducated citizenry and highly focused professional training. We will then transition to a discussion of what actions each of us can take to successfully alignthe reality of computing education with our aspirational societal goals. Our goal for this pre-symposium is that participants will leave with concrete actionitems they can immediately put into practice."
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