RAPID: Addressing the Challenges of Increasing Interest in Computing at the Undergraduate Level through Institutional Transformation

卡内基-梅隆大学（Carnegie-Mellon University）提议让计算机科学（CS）教育领域的领导者参与进来，重新构想CS的教学方式，以应对21世纪的挑战。许多计算机系目前正面临着本科生入学人数的大幅增加，其中大部分增长可能归因于那些不仅对计算机科学感兴趣，而且对计算机科学与其他计算机学科相结合感兴趣的学生。随着国家努力在K-12年级增加计算和计算思维的机会，这一趋势很可能会加速。拟议的项目包括一个为期两天的研讨会，届时将有100名来自研究型大学、文科和少数族裔学院、社区学院等不同学院的计算机科学教育专家，以及专业计算机组织和领先的行业合作伙伴参加。它将集中在一些关键问题上，试图理解各种类型的大学和地区日益增长的招生压力，继续努力增加计算机多样性的必要性，计算机教育界接受制度变革的准备，例如，通过他们的项目提供多种和/或多学科的途径，以及现在是否应该召开一次更大规模的计算机科学教育领袖峰会，开始制定一份路线图，在本科阶段进行广泛而持续的变革。

Carnegie-Mellon University proposes to engage leaders in computer science (CS) education in re-imagining the way CS is taught in response to 21st Century Challenges. Many CS departments are currently facing significant increases in undergraduate enrollment and much of the growth may be attributable to students who are interested not just in CS, but in CS combined with other computing-enabled disciplines. This trend could well accelerate as the national effort to increase access to computing and computational thinking in grades K-12 gains traction.The proposed project includes a 2-day workshop that will bring together 100 CS education experts from various colleges including research universities, liberal arts and minority-serving colleges, and community colleges, along with professional computing organizations and leading industry partners. It will focus on a number of key questions that seek to understand growing enrollment pressures in various types of colleges and regions, the need to continue efforts to increase diversity in computing, the readiness of the computing education community to embrace institutional changes that might, for example, provide multiple and/or multi-disciplinary pathways through their programs, and whether it is time for a larger summit of CS education leaders to start to develop a roadmap for broad and sustained change at the undergraduate level.