Collaborative Research: BPC-A: Improving Metropolitan Participation to Accelerate Computing Throughput and Success

洛约拉大学与伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校合作，提出了一个计划项目，旨在扩大人口稠密的芝加哥大都市区学生对计算机的参与。拟议的活动将侧重于在高中外展方面的协调努力：在大学和高中学生、教师和员工之间建立一个丰富的联系网络，在全市范围内向高中进行广泛的外展，其中包括强调跨学科工作、接触各种职业道路和社区建设活动。所提议的活动不仅旨在培养更大、更强、更多样化的计算专业人员队伍，而且还旨在培养更外向、更面向服务的计算专业人员队伍。该项目被视为建立更大联盟的第一步。

Loyola University, in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, proposes a planning project for an effort to broaden participation in computing among students in the densely populated Chicago metropolitan area. Proposed activities will focus on a coordinated effort at high school outreach: extensive metro-wide outreach to high schools growing out of a rich network of connections among college and high school students, faculty, and staff that includes an emphasis on interdisciplinary work as well as exposure to varied career paths, and community-building activities. Proposed activities are designed not only to cultivate a larger, stronger, and more diverse corps of computing professionals but also one that is more outward-looking and more service-oriented. This project is seen as the first step in building a larger Alliance.