Computing Scholarship Program

该项目在维拉诺瓦大学建立了一个为期四年的奖学金项目，为NSF增加攻读cems专业的大学生数量的目标做出了贡献。具体来说，该项目增加了攻读计算机科学专业的学生人数，特别强调招募和留住女性和西班牙裔等代表性不足的群体。该项目的互补目标是鼓励所有群体的计算机科学毕业生考虑在宾夕法尼亚州和费城广泛选择的技术公司工作。该项目整合了维拉诺瓦大学的重要学术和财务学生支持，该支持适用于大三和大四学生，并为大一和大二学生提供NSF支持和专业发展研讨会。这个项目的重点是计算机科学的技术领域将加强维拉诺瓦的实质性承诺，以招收女性和西班牙裔高中学生为所有专业。该项目的智力优势在于，它将计算机科学系的一个新的专业发展研讨会与每年为该项目的一年级学生提供11个3125美元的美国国家科学基金会资助的奖学金相结合。在第一年，将为二年级和三年级的学生提供18个额外的奖学金。这两项活动都是为了帮助学生克服学业或经济上的障碍，继续在计算机科学专业学习并取得成功。这个项目更广泛的影响是建立在它的延伸到代表性不足的学生群体和宾夕法尼亚州东南部的经济发展。该项目建立了一种文化，可以吸引、培养和支持代表性不足的学生。该项目还具有更广泛的影响，即确定和完善留住cems专业学生的最佳实践。该项目与维拉诺瓦的其他cems部门分享这些发现，并在国家教育会议上传播这些发现。

This project establishes a four-year scholarship program at Villanova University that contributes to NSF's goals of increasing the number of college students pursuing CSEMS majors. Specifically, this project increases the number of students pursuing a computer science major, with special emphasis on recruiting and retaining underrepresented groups such as women and Hispanics. The program has the complementary goal of encouraging all groups of computer science graduates to consider careers at Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's wide selection of technology firms. This project integrates the significant academic and financial student support at Villanova that is available for juniors and seniors with NSF support and professional development seminars for freshmen and sophomores. This project's focus on the technical field of computer science will enhance Villanova's substantial commitment to recruiting female and Hispanic high school students for all majors. The project's intellectual merit lies in the integration of a new professional development seminar in the Department of Computing Sciences with the offering of eleven $3125 NSF-funded scholarships to first-year students each year of the program. In the initial year, eighteen additional scholarships will be offered to second and third year students. Both activities are designed to help students overcome academic or financial obstacles to remaining in and thriving in a computer science major. The broader impact of this project is founded in its outreach to underrepresented student populations and economic development in southeastern Pennsylvania. The project develops a culture that can attract, nurture and support underrepresented students. The project also has the broader impact of identifying and refining best practices in retaining students in CSEMS majors. The project shares these findings with other CSEMS departments at Villanova as well as disseminates these findings at national education conferences.