Inviting successful alumnae to give first-year female students a talk should also be a potent way to increase gender diversity in Ball State, because successful people can encourage students to explore the field of computer science and give them confidence to study computer science, which can break the conservative thought that girls are not good at learning computer science. According to this idea, Ball State can invite some of alumnae of computer science department, and let them to give freshwomen a talk about their experience and the motivation to choose this major or something can stimulate female students to choose computer science major. That will help to increase gender diversity when some female students listen the stories of those
