Planning a Dual Institution Research Center in Socially Relevant Computing

莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院将规划和设计一个社会相关计算的协作中心。该中心将为非裔美国本科生提供跨学科的教育、研究和劳动力发展，特别是那些有完成学位风险的学生。此外，该中心将创建一个合作伙伴生态系统，以开展研究，以创新来解决国家优先考虑的关键社会问题，并展示干预措施，以增加非洲裔美国人在研究生院和STEM劳动力中的比例。该项目将帮助阐明发展学位途径的战略，以提高非裔美国人在计算方面的持久性。

Morehouse and Spelman Colleges will plan and design a collaborative center in Socially Relevant Computing. The center will provide interdisciplinary education, research, and workforce development for African American undergraduate computer science students, particularly those who are at risk for degree completion. In addition, the center will create an ecosystem of partners to conduct research that leads to innovations to address critical societal problems of national priority and demonstrated interventions to increase the representation of African Americans in graduate school and the STEM workforce. The principal investigators will implement the proposed project in multiple stages that include an internal assessment of capability and infrastructure requirements, an external assessment of relevant existing computer science centers for benchmarking, curriculum enhancements, and a pilot education research project to test an evidence-based socially relevant computing intervention concept. The project will help articulate strategies for developing degree pathways to increase persistence in computing for African Americans.