Special Projects (CNS): National Center for Women and Information Technology

特别项目（CNS）：国家妇女和信息技术中心

• 批准号: 0413538
• 负责人: Robert Schnabel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0413538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Special; Projects; CNS; National; Center

ABSTRACTSpecial Projects Program - FY04CNS 0413538 PI's: Robert B. Schnabel, University of Colorado; Lucinda M. Sanders, University of Colorado; and Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute for Women and TechnologyTitle: National Center for Women and Information TechnologyA broad national coalition of leaders from academia, government, industry, and non-profit organizations has mobilized to form the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), to address the issue of low participation of women in information technology (IT). The Center's twenty-year goal is workplace parity: equal participation for women and men in IT industrial and academic careers. The strategy for meeting this goal is to embrace and leverage existing efforts within a systemic, broad approach that: collects, assesses, and aggressively disseminates effective practices; encompasses the full education and career pipeline; and conducts new research and develops new programs where most needed, based upon measurement and data. The University of Colorado at Boulder, in collaboration with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, has received a CISE Special Projects award that will provide a portion of the funding for the NCWIT's infrastructure, research and application, with an emphasis upon the areas of undergraduate education, graduate education, and faculty careers, and collaboration with a broad set of universities through the Center's academic alliance.Several main projects in the Center will be conducted with the support of this award. The effective practices in undergraduate curriculum project will collect approaches for enhancing undergraduate education in computer science/IT that increase the participation and success of women, provide additional evaluation where needed, actively disseminate the most effective approaches, and suggest adjustments to undergraduate curriculum and educational approaches as appropriate. The community college pipeline project will determine effective practices for recruiting women from community colleges to four-year degree programs in computer science (CS) and IT. The graduate admissions criteria project will study a cohort of CS graduate students over a multi-year period, exploring their preparation and qualifications for graduate school and their experiences, progress and successes. The faculty careers project will research the factors that help or hinder women attain senior leadership positions in academic CS and IT departments, and will identify best practices that help women advance to senior leadership positions. The intellectual merit of this project is multi-dimensional. The NCWIT, under the leadership of Dr. Robert Schnabel, will coordinate activities of scientists in seven organizations, pulling together their research efforts on women in IT as well as collecting, evaluating and disseminating best practices. The Center has the potential to significantly contribute to scholarship in the field of gender equity in IT, as well as to act as a facilitator for translating the research findings in this area to practice. Girls and women are participating in information technology (IT) at very low rates, and the situation is not improving. The broader impact of NCWIT's activities lies in its potential to increase the number of girls and women entering and staying in IT.

摘要特殊项目计划-FY 04 CNS 0413538主要研究者：Robert B。科罗拉多大学;露辛达M. Sanders，科罗拉多大学; Telle Whitney，Anita博格妇女和技术研究所标题：国家妇女和信息技术中心一个由学术界、政府、工业界和非营利组织领导人组成的广泛的国家联盟已经动员起来，成立了国家妇女和信息技术中心（NCWIT），以解决妇女参与信息技术（IT）程度低的问题。该中心的20年目标是工作场所平等：男女平等参与信息技术工业和学术事业。 实现这一目标的战略是在一个系统的，广泛的方法中接受和利用现有的努力：收集，评估和积极传播有效的做法;包括完整的教育和职业管道;并根据测量和数据在最需要的地方进行新的研究和开发新的计划。 在博尔德的科罗拉多大学，与安妮塔博格妇女和技术研究所合作，已经收到了CISE特别项目奖，将为NCWIT的基础设施，研究和应用提供资金的一部分，重点放在本科教育，研究生教育和教师职业生涯的领域，并通过中心的学术联盟与广泛的大学合作。中心的几个主要项目将在该奖项的支持下进行。 本科课程有效做法项目将收集加强计算机科学/信息技术本科教育的方法，以增加妇女的参与和成功，在必要时提供额外的评估，积极传播最有效的方法，并酌情建议调整本科课程和教育方法。 社区学院管道项目将确定从社区学院招收妇女参加计算机科学和信息技术四年制学位课程的有效做法。研究生入学标准项目将在多年期间研究一批计算机科学研究生，探索他们的准备和研究生院的资格以及他们的经验，进步和成功。 教师职业项目将研究有助于或阻碍妇女在学术CS和IT部门获得高级领导职位的因素，并将确定帮助妇女晋升高级领导职位的最佳做法。 这个项目的智力价值是多方面的。 在Robert Schnabel博士的领导下，妇女信息技术全国委员会将协调七个组织的科学家的活动，汇集他们关于信息技术领域妇女的研究工作，并收集、评估和传播最佳做法。 该中心有潜力为信息技术领域的两性平等奖学金做出重大贡献，并作为促进者将这一领域的研究成果转化为实践。 女孩和妇女参与信息技术的比率很低，而且情况没有改善。 妇女信息技术全国委员会活动的更广泛影响在于它有可能增加进入和留在信息技术行业的女孩和妇女人数。