BPC-A AccessComputing Alliance

华盛顿大学计算机科学与工程系和DO-IT IT（残疾人、机会、互联网和技术）提议创建AccessComputing联盟，目的是增加残疾人在计算机职业中的参与。联盟合作伙伴加劳德特大学、微软、美国国家科学基金会STEM残疾人区域联盟（由南缅因大学、新墨西哥州立大学和西澳大学主办）、计算机协会（ACM）的SIGACCESS和合作者代表了来自全国教育、工业、政府和专业组织的利益相关者。联盟活动应用已证实的实践来支持计算机程序中的残疾人。为了增加成功获得本科和研究生学位的残疾学生的数量，该联盟将开展大学过渡和桥梁、辅导、实习和电子指导项目。为了提高高等院校计算机系的能力，使残疾学生充分参与课程和项目，该联盟将组建实践社区，开办能力建设研究所，并为计算机系制定系统的变化指标。为了创建一个全国性的资源，帮助残疾学生从事计算机职业，帮助计算机教育工作者、雇主、专业组织和其他利益相关者开发更具包容性的项目，分享有效的实践，该联盟将创建并维护一个可搜索的AccessComputing知识库，包括常见问题、案例研究和有效/有前途的实践。这些活动将以现有的联盟和资源为基础，进行全面、综合的努力。他们将在残疾人、计算机专业人员、雇主、残疾人提供者和专业组织之间建立全国性的合作，以探索导致残疾人代表性不足的问题，并开发、应用和评估干预措施。此外，他们将支持地方和区域的努力，以招收和留住残疾学生进入计算机行业，并帮助他们将他们的项目制度化和复制。该联盟将与其他为妇女和未被充分代表的少数民族服务的联盟和组织合作，使其项目对残疾学生开放。最后，他们将收集和发表研究和实施数据，以加强对有关将残疾人士纳入计算的问题的科学和技术理解。

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering and DO-IT IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) at the University of Washington propose to create the AccessComputing Alliance for the purpose of increasing the participation of people with disabilities in computing careers. Alliance partners Gallaudet University, Microsoft, the NSF Regional Alliances for Persons with Disabilities in STEM (hosted by the University of Southern Maine, New Mexico State University, and UW), and SIGACCESS of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and collaborators represent stakeholders from education, industry, government, and professional organizations nationwide. Alliance activities apply proven practices to support persons with disabilities within computing programs. To increase the number of students with disabilities who successfully pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees, the alliance will run college transition and bridge, tutoring, internship, and e-mentoring programs. To increase the capacity of postsecondary computing departments to fully include students with disabilities in coursers and programs, the alliance will form communities of practice, run capacity-building institutes, and develop systemic change indicators for computing departments. To create a nationwide resource to help students with disabilities pursue computing careers and computing educators and employers, professional organizations and other stakeholders to develop more inclusive programs and share effective practices, the alliance will create and maintain a searchable AccessComputing Knowledge Base of FAQs, case studies, and effective/promising practices.These activities will build on existing alliances and resources in a comprehensive, integrated effort. They will create nationwide collaborations among individuals with disabilities, computing professionals, employers, disability providers, and professional organizations to explore the issues that contribute to the underrepresentation of persons with disabilities and to develop, apply and assess interventions. In addition, they will support local and regional efforts to recruit and retain students with disabilities into computing and assist them in institutionalizing and replicating their programs. The alliance will work with other Alliances and organizations that serve women and underrepresented minorities to make their programs accessible to students with disabilities. Finally they will collect and publish research and implementation data to enhance scientific and technological understanding of issues related to the inclusion of people with disabilities in computing.