Collaborative Research: Access Network: Supporting Retention and Representation in Physics Through an Alliance of Campus-Based Diversity Programs

该奖项支持努力扩大和丰富加州大学伯克利分校的COMPASS计划，旨在改善教育和保留代表性不足的学生（主要是物理）。有五所大学有类似的基于COMPASS模式的项目：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校、马里兰州大学帕克分校、罗切斯特理工学院、芝加哥州立大学和亚利桑那州立大学。 该项目加入这些机构和加州大学伯克利分校，形成接入网络，旨在通过共享专业知识开发最佳实践。 接入网络将支持旨在通过创新战略在新的背景下建立类似指南针的程序来改善物理学的多样性和访问的程序的开发。该网络将加强每个站点的努力，建立启动新项目的最佳实践知识，并与物理界分享这些知识。对该项目进行的一项强有力的评估将确定该网络对支持多样性方案的影响，以及它如何有助于传播成功的战略和方案要素。（a）增强学生和教职员工-特别是来自边缘化和/或代表性不足群体的学生和教职员工-的权能，使他们成为设计、实施和反复改进留住人才工作的推动者，（B）促进参与这些努力的人之间的沟通和社区，以及（c）创建和维护一个材料和战略库，所有这些都是为了（d）支持当地社区根据其独特的环境和人口调整这些材料和方案要素。为实现这些目标，该项目将开展以下活动：（1）成员方案的年度大会，（2）通过定期电话会议和机构间旅行进行方案间交流，（3）记录地方和机构间创新，以及（4）综合和传播成员方案的教育材料。

This award supports an effort to expand and enrich the COMPASS program at UC Berkeley, which is aimed at improving the education and retention of under-represented students (primarily in Physics). There are five universities with similar programs based on the COMPASS model: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Maryland College Park, Rochester Institute of Technology, Chicago State University, and Arizona State University. This project joins these institutions and UC Berkeley to form the Access Network, designed to develop best practices through shared expertise. The Access network will support the development of programs intended to improve diversity and access in physics by innovating strategies to build Compass-like programs in new contexts. The network will enhance the efforts of each individual site, build knowledge of best practices for launching new programs, and share this knowledge with the physics community. A robust evaluation of the project will identify the impact of the network on supporting diversity programs and how it contributes to the dissemination of successful strategies and program elements.The Access network will: (a) empower students and faculty - especially those from marginalized and/or underrepresented groups - as agents in the design, implementation, and iterative improvement of retention efforts, (b) facilitate communication and community among those involved in such efforts, and (c) create and maintain a repository of materials and strategies, all in order to (d) support local communities in adapting these materials and program elements to their unique contexts and populations. To achieve these goals, the project will engage in the following activities: (1) an annual assembly of the member programs, (2) inter-program communication through regular conference calls and inter-institutional travel, (3) documentation of local and inter-institutional innovations, and (4) synthesis and dissemination of member programs' educational materials.