BPC Pipeline: Five Year Extension

这项扩大参与计算（BPC）奖资助了当时计算研究协会的妇女研究地位委员会（CRA-W）和计算多样化联盟（CDC）之间的合作项目，以增加妇女和代表性不足的少数民族在国家一级的计算研究中的参与。 这个BPC联盟计划通过提供指导，网络，社区建设和高度可见的榜样，以妇女和代表性不足的少数民族在计算来实现他们的目标。 该联盟解决了从本科生到高级教师和研究人员水平的CISE研究管道的所有阶段。随着这一扩展，CRA-W/CDC联盟建议以以下方式改进，扩展和评估其计划：高效的本科生分布式研究经验（DREU）计划将继续并扩大到包括残疾学生与ESPRIT合作。社区研究经验的本科生（CREU）将变得更加灵活和开放，以创造一个社区的本科生研究人员的新方法。本科生研究指导研讨会（URMW）将以各种形式提供，包括杰出讲座系列（DLS），格雷斯霍珀庆祝活动的CRA-W会议，以及越来越多的区域会议，如星庆祝活动以及与ABI/ACM-W格雷斯霍珀区域联盟的新合作伙伴关系。通过开发一套便携式材料和服务，CRA-W/CDC联盟将使其他团体能够将研究指导讲习班纳入其活动。这些材料将在CRA-W网站上传播，并与其合作伙伴NCWIT一起作为“盒装方案”传播。特定学科研讨会（DSW）将继续为研究生和年轻研究人员提供技能和网络机会，为他们在CS E特定子领域的成功研究生涯量身定制。针对新博士和新助理教授的职业指导研讨会（CMW）将扩大，为新兴的博士后人口提供有意义的新内容。CISE PI的材料将被设计为便于将CRA-W/CDC计划作为其研究提案的更广泛影响。该联盟将强调方案可持续性和机构变革的机制，例如增加对DREU的导师资助和专业组织对DSW的所有权。对方案的广泛评估将包括回答参加CRA-W/CDC联盟方案的妇女和少数民族与不参加方案的妇女和少数民族相比如何的具体问题。CRA-W/CDC联盟将继续与STARS联盟和安妮塔博格研究所现有的合作伙伴关系，并将建立新的合作伙伴关系，与ACM-W和计算机计算联盟。智力优点：拟议的计划促进了广泛的研究活动，在计算机和信息科学与工程。这些努力将增加我们对计算中代表性不足的问题和补救措施的理解，并可能更广泛地跨越STEM。特别是，它将提供资料，说明在何种程度上可以将已证明对妇女成功的方案调整适用于其他代表性不足的群体。 更广泛的影响：拟议的计划提供指导和网络的机会，并提高跨计算学科的多样性问题的认识。他们解决了计算研究的每一个阶梯，从本科生到教授和高级研究人员。他们有潜力为代表性不足的群体的许多成员提供知识，技能和信心，以在现有的计算机科学世界中取得成功。

This Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) award funds the collaborative project between thenComputing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Research (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computing research on a national level. This BPC Alliance plans to accomplish their goal by providing mentoring, networking, community building, and highly visible role models to women and underrepresented minorities in computing. The alliance addresses all stages of the CISE research pipeline from undergraduates to senior faculty and researcher levels. With this extension, the CRA-W/CDC Alliance proposes to improve, extend and evaluate its programs in the following ways: The highly effective Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) program will continue and be expanded to include students with disabilities in partnership with AccessComputing. The Community Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU) will become more flexible and open to new ways of creating a community of undergraduate researchers. Undergraduate Research Mentoring Workshops (URMW) will be offered in various formats, including the Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS), CRA-W sessions at the Grace Hopper Celebrations, and increasingly, to regional conferences such as the STARS Celebrations and with the new partnership with the ABI/ACM-W Grace Hopper Regional Consortium. By developing a portable package of materials and services, the CRA-W/CDC Alliance will enable other groups to incorporate research mentoring workshops into their events. The materials will be disseminated on the CRA-W website and with its partner, NCWIT, as "Programs-in-a-box". The Discipline-Specific Workshops (DSW) will continue to provide graduate students and young researchers with skills and networking opportunities tailored for a successful research career in their particular subfield of CS&E. Career Mentoring Workshops (CMW) aimed at fresh PhDs and new Assistant Professors will be expanded to provide meaningful new content for the emerging postdoc population. Materials for CISE PIs will be designed to facilitate incorporating CRA-W/CDC programs as broader impacts of their research proposals. The alliance will emphasize mechanisms for program sustainability and institutional change, such as increased mentor funding of DREUs and ownership of DSWs by professional organizations. Extensive evaluation of programs will include the goal of answering the specific question of how women and minorities that participate in the programs of the CRA-W/CDC Alliance fare with respect to those who do not. The CRA-W/CDC Alliance will continue its existing partnerships with the STARS Alliance and the Anita Borg Institute and will establish new partnerships with ACM-W and the AccessComputing Alliance.Intellectual Merit: The proposed programs facilitate a broad range of research activities in computer and information science and engineering. These efforts will increase our understanding of the issues and remedies for underrepresentation in computing, and possibly more broadly, across STEM. In particular it will provide information on the extent to which programs that have already proven successful for women can be adapted for other underrepresented groups. Broader Impacts: The proposed programs provide mentoring and networking opportunities and increase awareness of diversity issues across the computing disciplines. They address every rung of the ladder of computing research, from undergraduates to full professors and senior researchers. They have the potential to give many members of underrepresented groups the knowledge, skills and confidence to succeed in the existing world of computer science.