BPC-AE: Collaborative Research: Strengthening and Expanding the Empowering Leadership Alliance

BPC-AE：合作研究：加强和扩大赋权领导力联盟

• 批准号: 0940534
• 负责人: Juan Gilbert
• 金额: $ 5.2万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940534&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; AE; Collaborative; Research; Strengthening

Rice University leads a collaborative proposal to extend the impact of the Empowering Leadership: Computing Scholars of Tomorrow Alliance (ELA) through partnerships with new institutions and regional collaboratives that will adopt and expand ELA's successful models of engagement. The goal of ELA is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who major in computing at the nation's research universities. Additionally, ELA supports these students in securing positions in computing following graduation. The premise of the ELA is that minority students at research universities face challenges that can be mitigated by a supportive community that provides academic, social, and personal support. National in scope, the ELA is developing a network of computing faculty and leaders dedicated to providing this support. In addition to Rice University, ELA originally included Boston University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas, Austin. With this proposal, the ELA will add the University of Georgia, Clemson University, Tufts University, and Stony Brook University as new lead institutions, along with several new partners including MentorNet, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and the New England Computer Science Chairs (NECSC). The ELA uses three intersecting models of engagement, including the National, Regional and Local Models. The National Model seeks out and supports individuals across the country, building a virtual (and sometimes in-person) network; the Regional Model builds a support network among multiple universities within a region; and the Local Model builds a local support community within a single university. These three models serve to connect ELA students with each other and with tailored opportunities including internships, mentoring, conference participation, and summer research programs. The proposed extension will strengthen the three models at their current sites and test their scalability and transfer to the new lead institutions. It will also add programs developed under BPC demonstration projects to the suite of ELA offerings and test their scalability.

莱斯大学领导了一项合作提案，旨在通过与新机构和区域合作伙伴的合作，扩大赋权领导力的影响：未来联盟（ELA）的计算学者，这些机构和区域合作伙伴将采用和扩大ELA的成功参与模式。ELA的目标是增加美国研究型大学中来自代表性不足群体的计算机专业学生的数量。 此外，ELA支持这些学生在毕业后获得计算职位。ELA的前提是，研究型大学的少数民族学生面临的挑战可以通过提供学术，社会和个人支持的支持性社区来缓解。在全国范围内，ELA正在开发一个计算机教师和领导人网络，致力于提供这种支持。除了莱斯大学，ELA最初还包括波士顿大学、加州大学伯克利分校和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校。根据这一提议，ELA将增加格鲁吉亚大学、克莱姆森大学、塔夫茨大学和斯托尼布鲁克大学作为新的牵头机构，沿着还有几个新的合作伙伴，包括MentorNet、计算机科学教师协会（CSTA）和新英格兰计算机科学教席（NECSC）。ELA使用三种相互交叉的参与模式，包括国家、区域和地方模式。国家模式在全国范围内寻找和支持个人，建立一个虚拟（有时是面对面）网络;区域模式在一个区域内的多所大学之间建立一个支持网络;地方模式在一所大学内建立一个地方支持社区。这三种模式有助于ELA学生相互联系，并提供量身定制的机会，包括实习，指导，会议参与和夏季研究计划。拟议的扩展将加强三个模式在其现有地点的能力，并测试其可扩展性和向新的牵头机构的转移。它还将在BPC示范项目下开发的程序添加到ELA产品套件中，并测试其可扩展性。