ACHIEVING DIVERSITY GOALS: A PROGRAM TO ADVANCE LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

该项目的长期目标是开发一个招聘和保留计划，旨在吸引和毕业传统上代表性不足的工程和计算机科学领军人物(领导力学者)。实现这一目标的战略包括加强与工程学院和社区学院的联系，以及注重领导力和学术卓越的留住战略。这些招聘和留住战略正在开发、测试和完善，作为旨在提升工程和计算机科学领导力的大学计划的一部分。2015届工程和计算机科学毕业生的具体目标是：1.至少30%的毕业生属于代表性不足的群体。对于代表性不足的群体，最低四年保留率为70%。领导力学者属于各自毕业班的上半部分。到项目完成之日，维持这些目标所需的招生和保留战略已经到位。该学院计算机科学和工程专业的代表不足的学生属于以下三个类别中的一个或多个：非欧洲族裔、第一代大学生和女性。该学院正在招收大约13名一年级学生和6名社区学院学生。这些领导力学者获得分级的、基于需求的奖学金，在他们宣布自己的专业后，奖学金会增加。入学后，奖学金获得者将参加为期三个学期的科学、技术、工程和数学领导力(STEM)联合课程计划，旨在加强这一群体，并让他们接触到文理学院提供的独特机会。领导力奖学金获得者在学院的头两年有机会参加自愿的有偿暑期研究或实习经历。智力价值：这个项目是以成功的迈耶霍夫学者计划为蓝本的，但它经过调整，强调了STEM教育在文科背景下的特殊好处。关于文理学院科学教育的研究得出结论，他们在培养STEM领导者方面非常成功，因为他们提供了非凡的好处，支持了NSF战略计划中概述的许多目标，包括需要替代和多样化的方法来实现卓越的教育，学科之间的交叉培养，以及基于发现的学习的更广泛影响：该项目支持学院最近的战略计划，该计划通过扩大STEM领域未被充分代表的群体的参与来培养不同的工程和计算机科学领导者。通过传播项目成果，该计划促进了对成功招聘和留住不同STEM领导人的战略的理解。

The long-term objective of this project is development of a recruitment and retention program designed to attract and graduate engineering and computer science leaders (Leadership Scholars) who have been traditionally underrepresented. Strategies to achieve this objective include strengthening the pipelines with engineering academies and community colleges, as well as retention strategies focused on leadership and academic excellence. These recruitment and retention strategies are being developed, tested, and refined as part of a college program designed to advance leadership in engineering and computer science. Specific objectives for the Class of 2015 engineering and computer science graduates are:1. At least 30% of the students who graduate belong to underrepresented groups.2. A minimum four year retention rate of 70% is attained for underrepresented groups.3. The Leadership Scholars belong to the top half of their respective graduating classes.4. The necessary recruitment and retention strategies to sustain these goals are in place by the project completion date.Underrepresented students in computer science and engineering at the college belong to one or more of the following three categories: non-European ethnic groups, first-generation college students, and women. The college is recruiting a cohort of approximately 13 first-year students and 6 community college students. These Leadership Scholars receive tiered, need-based scholarships that increase after they declare their majors. Upon matriculation, the Scholars participate in a three-semester Leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) co-curricular program designed to strengthen the cohort, and to expose them to the distinctive opportunities available at a liberal arts college The Leadership Scholars have opportunities to participate in voluntary paid summer research or internship experiences during their first two years at the college. Intellectual Merit: This project is modeled after the successful Meyerhoff Scholars Program, however, it is adapted to emphasize the particular benefits of STEM education within a liberal arts context. Studies regarding science education at liberal arts colleges conclude that they are very successful in developing STEM leaders since they offer extraordinary benefits that support many of the goals outlined in strategic plan of NSF including the need for alternative and diverse approaches to excellence in education, cross-fertilization between disciplines, and discovery-based learning Broader Impacts: This project supports the recent strategic plan at the college that embraces a vision to graduate diverse engineering and computer science leaders by broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields. By disseminating the project results, the program advances the understanding of strategies that are successful in recruiting and retaining diverse STEM leaders.