Collaborative: The STARS Aligned: How the STARS Computing Corps Broadens Participation in Computing

该奖项是STARS Computing Corps Alliance for Broadening Participation in Computing（BPC）的一年延期。扩展的主要研究目的是调查研究问题的影响，星计算军团联盟在其过去和目前的努力，以扩大参与计算。这种纵向评估有可能阐明BPC联盟的成功组成部分及其作为国家资源在计算的多样性，公平性和包容性问题上的作用。此外，这项研究的结果可以进一步扩展知识的做法，旨在提高持久性和支持职业发展的计算本科生，研究生和教师，特别是那些代表性不足的群体。通过STARS支持的会议，社区和网络将继续创造重要的机构和人力资源，可以增加BPC研究的覆盖面，以更大的研究人员，教育工作者，管理人员，计算机科学部门和K-20学生。除了了解STARS计算团队对计算持久性和代表性不足的学生和教师的职业发展的纵向影响外，这项工作的目的还包括：1）使STARS现有的宣传BPC最佳实践的工作正规化; 2）扩大STARS在线资源，以建立参与BPC评估和研究的能力; 3）开发一个虚拟的STARS校友社区;和4）的方法通过STARS庆祝活动和学术交流活动继续支持BPC的学术团体。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，

This award is a one-year extension of the STARS Computing Corps Alliance for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). The primary research aim of extension is to investigate research questions around the impact of the STARS Computing Corps Alliance on its past and current efforts to broaden participation in computing. This longitudinal evaluation has the potential to elucidate successful components of BPC Alliances and their role as national resources on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Further, the results of this study could further extend knowledge about practices designed to increase persistence and support career advancement in computing for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, particularly for those from underrepresented groups. The conferences, communities, and networks supported through STARS will continue to create significant institutional and human resources that could increase the reach of BPC research to a larger audience of researchers, educators, administrators, CS departments, and K-20 students.In addition to understanding the longitudinal impact of the STARS Computing Corps on computing persistence and career advancement for underrepresented students and faculty, the work also aims to 1) formalize existing STARS efforts for propagating best-practices for BPC; 2) expand STARS online resources designed to build capacity for engaging in BPC evaluation and research; 3) develop a virtual STARS alumni community; and 4) continue to support an academic community for BPC through STARS Celebration and RESPECT.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.