For decades education researchers have struggled with a stubborn problem: computer science introductory courses are notoriously difficult. About one third of the students fail or drop out. A new team of CSU researchers has an innovative solution.

Darrell Whitley, current professor and former chair of the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University, received a Pioneer Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Anton Pedro Willem Böhm, known to his colleagues and friends as “Wim,” stepped onto the Colorado State University campus in the spring of 1990 as a new professor in the Department of Computer Science. In the 30 years following that, Böhm made an immediate and lasting impression.

The new online computer science bachelor’s program is among the nation’s best for return on investment.