Collaborative Research: BPC-A: LEAP Alliance: Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate

合作研究：BPC-A：LEAP 联盟：教授未来领导力的多元化

• 批准号: 2137408
• 负责人: Denice Hood
• 金额: $ 54.12万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; BPC; LEAP; Alliance

Only 5.3% of the faculty at PhD-granting universities are from the following underrepresented communities: Black or African-American, Hispanic, or American Indian/Alaska Native. Diversifying the computing professoriate is critical for providing excellent role models, shaping departmental programs and policies, and bringing diverse perspectives into research projects and programs. The LEAP Alliance aims to increase the diversity of leadership in the computing professoriate by intentionally bringing together four cohorts of universities, each with common strengths and a common agenda. This work builds upon the lessons learned from a first cohort comprised of institutions producing a large percentage of computing faculty and adds three additional cohorts to further strengthen the pipeline to the computing professoriate.The goal of the LEAP Alliance is to address the broadening participation challenge of increasing the diversity of the future leadership in the computing professoriate at research universities as a way to increase diversity across the field. Key national leadership roles, such as serving on national committees that impact the field of computing, often come from research universities, making these institutions a critical point of focus. The Alliance has previously piloted this effort in an initial cohort of 11 research universities who were found to produce over 50% of the faculty at the top 55 research institutions. They will continue to bring together similar institutions in a second cohort, as well as cohorts that focus on institutions graduate a large percentage of computing PhDs and computing undergraduates, respectively. Ultimately, the Alliance aims to increase the diversity of PhD graduates from the institutions that are the top producers of computing faculty, increase the exposure of academic careers at the institutions that already have good diversity in their PhD graduates, and increase the retention of diverse undergraduate students at the institutions who send students to graduate school that go on to be faculty.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.

在授予博士学位的大学中，只有5.3%的教师来自以下代表性不足的社区：黑人或非裔美国人、西班牙裔或美洲印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民。计算机教授的多样化对于提供优秀的榜样、形成部门计划和政策以及为研究项目和计划带来不同的观点至关重要。LEAP联盟的目标是通过有意地将四所大学聚集在一起，从而增加计算机教授领导层的多样性，每一所大学都有共同的优势和共同的议程。这项工作建立在第一批学生的基础上，这些学生由培养了大量计算机教员的机构组成，并增加了另外三个学生，以进一步加强培养计算机教授的渠道。LEAP联盟的目标是解决日益扩大的参与挑战，即增加研究型大学计算机专业未来领导的多样性，以此作为增加整个领域多样性的一种方式。关键的国家领导角色，例如在影响计算领域的国家委员会中任职，通常来自研究型大学，使这些机构成为重点。该联盟之前在最初的11所研究型大学中进行了试点，结果发现，在排名前55位的研究机构中，这些大学培养了50%以上的教师。他们将继续把类似的机构聚集在一起，组成第二组，以及专注于分别拥有大量计算机博士和计算机本科生的机构的队列。最终，该联盟的目标是增加来自顶尖计算机学院的博士毕业生的多样性，增加已经拥有良好多样性博士毕业生的机构的学术职业曝光率，并增加在那些将学生送往研究生院并成为教师的机构中保留不同本科生的多样性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。