BPCnet: Scaling Up the Impact of NSF CISE Broadening Participation Activities

计算研究协会(CRA)与国家信息技术妇女中心(NCWIT)和加州大学洛杉矶分校的Linda Sax博士及其研究小组合作，提议扩大和增强BPCnet门户。作为其扩大计算机参与(BPC)承诺的一部分，国家科学基金会(NSF)计算机和信息科学与工程局(CEISE)正在试行一项要求，即其首席调查人员(PI)在他们的项目中包括BPC计划。在线资源门户网站BPCnet.org是由CRA开发的，以协助私人投资机构寻找和制定有意义的业务流程控制工作。该门户包括一系列资源：学术论文、盒装程序、现有项目的例子，PI可以加入以产生集体影响的项目，以及描述PI及其部门如何最好地创建自己的BPC计划的文档。在这份提案中，CRA描述了门户开发的下一个阶段。这项工作将创建详细的程序--标准操作程序(SOP)--以获取、审查、管理和维护门户上的新资源和当前资源。它将实施一项多方面的管理战略，以获取新的资源，提供便于获取和搜索的资源，并持续评价门户内容，以便删除或修订被认为无效或过时的资源。这项工作将发起一项宣传和社区参与活动，以提高CISE私人投资公司对该门户的认识和使用。它将扩展BPCnet.org，以包括更多和更多种易于访问的资源，并产生更高效、更有效和更可持续的门户网站。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Computing Research Association (CRA), in collaboration with the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and Dr. Linda Sax and her research team at UCLA, proposes to expand and enhance the BPCnet portal. As part of its commitment to broadening participation in computing (BPC), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) is piloting a requirement that its Principal Investigators (PIs) include a BPC plan in their projects. The online resource portal BPCnet.org was developed by CRA to assist PIs in finding and developing meaningful BPC efforts. The portal includes a range of resources: scholarly papers, programs-in-a-box, examples of existing projects that PIs can join for collective impact, and documents describing how PIs and their departments can best create their own BPC plans. In this proposal, CRA describes the next stage in the portal's development. The effort will create detailed procedures -- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) -- for obtaining, vetting, administering, and maintaining new and current resources on the portal. It will implement a multifaceted curation strategy to obtain new resources, present resources so that they are easily accessible and searchable, and continually evaluate the portal content in order to remove or revise resources that have been judged ineffective or obsolete. The effort will launch a promotion and community engagement campaign to create awareness and use of the portal among CISE PIs. It will expand BPCnet.org to include a greater number and variety of easily accessible resources and result in portal that is more efficient, effective, and sustainable.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.