Computer Science Indigenous Community of Learners United to Develop, Excel, and Succeed

美国只有一所部落学院有计算机科学学士学位课程，其他学院和大学每年在计算机科学方面毕业的土著学生人数很少。这些数字远远低于来自574个部落国家的至少300万部落成员的需求，而这个社会越来越多地以计算机为媒介。该项目旨在培养计算机科学毕业生，他们得到培养和指导，以支持部落国家建设，大大提高国家的技术能力。这将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在俄克拉荷马州的大学证明经济需要的保留和毕业。在六年的时间里，该项目将为23名攻读计算机科学学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。在这个项目中吸取的经验教训将有助于俄克拉荷马州大学制度化的结构，应该形成可持续的途径，以计算机科学为土著学生。这个项目的目标是吸引，招聘，留住，并在俄克拉荷马州大学的部落民族建设和计算机科学感兴趣的研究生。为了实现这一目标，将在咨询委员会的指导下招募两批人，咨询委员会由了解和支持土著教育的组织的个人组成。咨询委员会还将帮助开发一个计算机科学计划，该计划具有文化能力，对土著学生，他们的社区和其他有兴趣支持土著社区的学生具有价值。部落和印度教育部门将成为合作伙伴，以激发部落社区对计算机科学的兴趣，将其作为一门学科，并作为帮助部落国家建设的一种手段。 该计划的学生将获得每周一次的学习大厅，同行导师将支持他们的学术成就，学者将与两名教师导师相匹配：一名具有土著教育方面的专业知识，另一名具有计算机科学方面的专业知识，并将聘请团体学术咨询来支持队列社区。一个由教职员工组成的学生成功咨询委员会将确定该项目学生所需的相关支持和资源，并就将这些项目融入学术结构提供建议。该计划的学生将获得专业发展机会，包括在土著社区实习，服务学习项目，以造福部落社区，和本科研究项目。这一项目将由一名具有土著方法专门知识的土著教育研究员进行评价。评估结果和经验教训将通过工程教育和土著高等教育会议和期刊传播。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Only one Tribal College in the U.S. has a Computer Science BS program, and other colleges and universities graduate small numbers of indigenous students per year per school in Computer Science. These numbers fall well short of the needs of the at least three million tribal members from 574 Tribal Nations in a society that is increasingly mediated by computing. This project aims to produce Computer Science graduates who have been nurtured and mentored to support Tribal Nation building to greatly enhance the technological capabilities of the Nations. This will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Oklahoma. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 23 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science. The lessons learned during this project will help the University of Oklahoma institutionalize the structures that should form sustainable pathways to Computer Science for indigenous students.The goal of this project is to attract, recruit, retain, and graduate students with an interest in Tribal Nation building and Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. To accomplish this goal, two cohorts will be recruited under the guidance of an advisory board, composed of individuals from organizations that understand and support Indigenous Education. The advisory board will also help develop a Computer Science program that is culturally competent and has value for indigenous students, their communities, and other students interested in supporting indigenous communities. Tribes and Indian Education Departments will be partners to generate tribal communities’ interest in Computer Science as a discipline and as a means to help with Tribal Nation building. Students in the program will be provided a weekly Study Hall where peer mentors will support their academic achievement, and scholars will be matched with two faculty mentors: one with expertise in Indigenous Education and one in Computer Science, and group academic advising will be employed to support a cohort community. A Student Success Advisory Board of staff and faculty will identify relevant supports and resources needed for the students in the program and will advise on integrating these programs into academic structures. Students in the program will be given professional development opportunities including internships in indigenous communities, service-learning projects to benefit tribal communities, and undergraduate research projects. This project will be evaluated by an Indigenous Education researcher with expertise in indigenous methodologies. Evaluation results and lessons learned will be disseminated through Engineering Education and Indigenous Higher Education conferences and journals. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.