Encouraging Alaska Native Participation in Computing

阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校（UAF）提出了一个鼓励阿拉斯加本地学生参与计算机的项目。该提案建立在充分证据的基础上，这些证据表明阿拉斯加原住民的学习风格和教育目标与传统的“西方”计算机专业学生不同，目前的课程并不能有效地满足他们的需求。pi将在扩展现有关系的基础上创建一个支持性的生态系统，通过这个生态系统，学生、顾问、教师、工业合作伙伴、导师、家庭和支持他们的组织结构共同努力，以提高阿拉斯加本地人在计算机领域的参与度。这种方法建立在成功的四个关键之上：发展学生的学科知识，帮助学生发展他们对计算机领域的认同，建立学生在计算机教育的制度背景下移动的过程，并通过学生可以回到他们的家庭社区并分享他们的知识。活动将包括需求评估、外联、修改课程交付机制、教员培训、增加课程设置和扩大过渡计划。

The University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) proposes a project to encourage Alaska Native student participation in computing. The proposal builds on well-documented evidence that the learning styles and educational goals of Alaska Natives differ from traditional "western" computing students, and that current programs do not effectively meet their needs. The PIs will create a supportive ecosystem - based on extending existing relationships - through which students, advisers, faculty, industrial partners, mentors, families, and the organization structures that support them work together towards the goal of increasing the participation of Alaska Natives in computing. The approach is founded upon four keys to success: developing the students' disciplinary knowledge, helping student develop their identity with respect to the field of computing, establishing processes by which the students move through the institutional contexts of their computing education, and contributing through which the students can return to their home communities and share their knowledge. Activities will include needs assessment, outreach, modifications to course delivery mechanisms, faculty training, increased course offerings, and augmentation of transition programs.