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

授予博士学位的大学只有5.3%的教职员工来自以下代表性较低的社区：黑人或非裔美国人、西班牙裔或美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民。计算教授的多样化对于提供优秀的榜样、制定部门计划和政策以及将不同的视角带入研究项目和计划至关重要。LEAP联盟旨在通过有意将四所拥有共同优势和共同议程的大学聚集在一起，增加计算教授领域领导层的多样性。这项工作建立在从第一批由产生大量计算教师的机构组成的队列中吸取的教训的基础上，并增加了三个额外的队列，以进一步加强通往计算教授的渠道。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教授未来领导层的多样性，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，如在影响计算领域的国家委员会任职，往往来自研究型大学，使这些机构成为关键的焦点。该联盟此前在最初的11所研究型大学中试行了这一努力，这些大学被发现在55家顶尖研究机构中培养了超过50%的教师。他们将继续将类似的机构聚集在第二个队列中，以及专注于机构的队列分别毕业于很大比例的计算机博士和计算机本科生。最终，联盟的目标是增加来自顶尖计算教师产生机构的博士毕业生的多样性，增加在博士毕业生中已经具有良好多样性的机构的学术生涯的曝光率，并增加将学生送到研究生学校并继续成为教师的机构留住不同的本科生。这一奖项反映了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。

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.