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、伊利诺伊大学香槟分校合作，提出了一个规划项目，旨在扩大人口稠密的芝加哥大都市区学生对计算的参与。 拟议的活动将集中在高中外展的协调努力：广泛的地铁范围内的外展到高中成长出大学和高中学生，教师和工作人员之间的连接丰富的网络，包括强调跨学科的工作，以及接触到不同的职业道路，社区建设活动。 拟议的活动不仅旨在培养更大、更强和更多样化的计算专业人员队伍，而且还旨在培养更外向和更面向服务的人员队伍。 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.