Collaborative Research: BPC-LSA: ACM SIGBP: Forming an ACM Special Interest Group to Scale the Impact of BPC Activities

位于夏洛特的北卡罗来纳州大学与洛约拉学院合作，提议让不同的利益相关者参与制定计算机特别兴趣小组协会（ACM SIGBP）章程，向ACM提交建立SIGBP的提案，并支持SIGBP社区的启动工作。SIG将提供一个公认的，完善的国际社会，以支持和加强扩大参与计算（BPC）的各种举措。扩大对计算的参与需要来自学术界、工业界、政府、K-12学校和非营利部门的研究人员、从业人员、教育工作者和政策制定者之间多层次的跨学科合作，包括计算、心理学、社会学、种族和性别研究、教育和人力资源。BPC组织、计划和倡议过多。虽然BPC社区开始联合起来，就像NSF BPC联盟一样，但大多数倡议都是相对孤立的。BPC的研究文献分散在计算教育、普通教育和社会科学的期刊和会议中。我们需要的是一个全面的BPC社区，以支持和突出现有的许多BPC倡议，并通过用一个声音代表社区来推动国家BPC议程。这将为寻求参与的学生提供机会，为从业者提供实践，并为寻求合作的研究人员提供社区。ACM是计算领域的旗舰国际专业和科学组织。ACM特别兴趣小组（SIG）代表了计算的主要领域。每个SIG形成一个社区，包括会议，出版物，以及旨在促进知识和促进计算领域内的合作的区域和全球活动。我们寻求利用ACM SIG社区结构来支持国际BPC社区。ACM SIGBP项目的目标是通过建立一个ACM SIGBP来加强、扩大和维持扩大计算参与的努力。项目成果包括：a）建立一个ACM SIGBP，B）增加对现有BPC活动和组织的参与，c）提高计算机专业学生对BPC机会的认识，以及d）增加国内和国际现有BPC工作之间的合作。

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in collaboration with Loyola College, proposes to engage diverse stakeholders to develop an Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Broadening Participation (ACM SIGBP) charter, submit a proposal to the ACM to establish a SIGBP, and support startup efforts of the SIGBP community. The SIG will provide a well-recognized, well-established, international community to support and strengthen the diverse array of initiatives for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). Broadening participation in computing requires multiple levels of inter-disciplinary collaboration among researchers, practitioners, educators and policy-makers from academia, industry, government, K-12 schools, and the non-profit sector within a variety of interests, including computing, psychology, sociology, ethnic and gender studies, education, and human resources. A plethora of BPC organizations, programs and initiatives exist. Although BPC communities are starting to coalesce, as with the NSF BPC alliances, a majority of initiatives are relatively isolated. The BPC research literature is scattered among journals and conferences within computing education, general education, and the social sciences. What is needed is an overarching BPC community to support and highlight the many existing BPC initiatives, and to drive the national BPC agenda by speaking for the community with one voice. This will provide opportunities for students seeking to participate, practices for practitioners to adopt, and a community for researchers seeking to collaborate. The ACM is the flagship international professional and scientific organization for computing. The ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) represent the major areas of computing. Each SIG forms a community that includes conferences, publications, and regional and global activities intended to advance knowledge and foster collaboration within computing areas. We seek to leverage the ACM SIG community structure to support an international BPC Community. The goal of the proposed ACM SIGBP Project is to strengthen, scale, and sustain efforts to broaden participation in computing by establishing an ACM SIGBP. Project outcomes include a) establishing an ACM SIGBP, b) increasing participation in existing BPC activities and organizations, c) increasing awareness among computing students of BPC opportunities, and d) increasing collaboration among existing BPC efforts nationally and internationally.