Novel Pathways to CS Research Careers: Broadening Target Populations and Scaling Outreach Programs

计算机科学研究职业的新途径：扩大目标人群并扩大推广计划

• 批准号: 1840724
• 负责人: Sandhya Dwarkadas
• 金额: $ 374.95万
• 依托单位: Computing Research Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840724&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Novel; Pathways; CS; Research; Careers

The Computing Research Association (CRA, on behalf of its Subcommittee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), proposes a project to increase and sustain participation in computer science (CS) research by encouraging members of the underrepresented groups in computing (URGs) to earn advanced degrees in computing and engineering in order to pursue research careers in academia, industry or national laboratories. The project builds on CRA-W's previous successes by reshaping and expanding existing programs, both those done on its own and those done in partnerships with others. The proposed work will expand CRA-W's work in three ways:1. Broader Diversity and Improved Scaffolding for Intersectionality. Many CRA-W programs have already broadened beyond their original focus on women to include minorities and persons with disabilities. With this proposal, CRA-W commits to broadening its program portfolio further to partner with orgranizations focused on support for underpresented minorities and persons with disabilities, and to include other diversity demographics such as veterans and LGBTQ people. To support these more diverse constituencies, CRA-W will adapt its mentoring programs to directly address intersectionality concerns.2. Support for Multiple and Unique Pathways into a Research Career. In recent years, the notion of career pathway has become insufficient for describing the many rich and unique pathways by which computing professionals navigate their careers. With this effort, CRA-W plans to adapt its mentoring programs to support entry and re-entry to CS from other disciplines and to support moves between industry development or start-ups and graduate school or academia.3. Implementation at Scale. A fundamental challenge in improving diversity lies in finding enough human and technical infrastructure to support the efforts at scale, in terms of both program operation and in terms rigorous program evaluation. CRA-W will work to bring its expertise in mentoring to scale, identifying features that are critical to success so that its most successful programs can be adopted throughout the computing research community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

计算研究协会（CRA，代表其在计算研究中妇女地位（CRA-W）地位的小组委员会，提议通过鼓励代表性不足的计算机（URGS）的成员来增加计算机科学（CS）研究的项目（CS）研究，以赚取高级学位和工程学，以促进企业奖学金的企业企业，从事企业范围的企业企业，从事学院的业务范围或国民企业的工业企业，工业界，工业界，企业范围内的企业企业，工业工业，工业界，赚取了计算机科学（URGS）。通过与他人进行合作伙伴关系的计划和扩大现有的计划。专注于对少数群体和残疾人的支持，并包括其他多样化的人口统计学，例如，CRA-W会支持这些更加多样化的人。专业人士以这种努力来驾驶其指导计划，以支持其他学科的CS，并支持行业发展或初创企业之间的动作，并在研究生院或学术界之间进行。3将其在指导方面的专业知识进行扩展，确定对成功至关重要的功能，以便在整个计算研究社区都可以采用其最成功的计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估值得支持的。