BPC-AE: Scaling and Sustaining Gender Diversity in Postsecondary Computing using NCWIT's Systemic Change Approach

BPC-AE：使用 NCWIT 的系统变革方法扩大和维持高等教育计算中的性别多样性

• 批准号: 2216561
• 负责人: Lucinda Sanders
• 金额: $ 359.98万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216561&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; AE; Scaling; Sustaining; Gender

The University of Colorado extends the The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Alliance. The systematic social and structural disadvantages to women in computing, at all identity intersections and levels of pathways to careers, is deeply concerning both from the viewpoint of equity and the nation's need for a highly qualified scientific workforce and improved innovation. While the nation has seen some improvement over the past two decades, underrepresentation of women continues, both in terms of numbers and of influence. NCWIT seeks to ensure that women have nontrivial influence in computing because technical products are better, people are better served, and computing research is relevant to more people. Women’s low participation in computing is rooted in inequitable societal structures and everyday social interaction, not in women. NCWIT change approaches interrupt the reproduction of these inequities at the level of social systems, altering policy, everyday practices and decision making, beliefs, and norms to sustain change. Building inclusive cultures in computing departments will increase diversity of thought and advance the computing discipline, a field integral to all other STEM fields. NCWIT unites over 1500 member organizations across the computing ecosystem to ensure the perspectives and contributions of those who identify as women—at the intersections of gender identity, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexual orientation, and ability status—are meaningfully represented at all levels of computing. NCWIT guides its members—including postsecondary institutions, a lynchpin in the ecosystem—in understanding, implementing, and institutionalizing research-based practices and strategies that produce systemic change. NCWIT helps organizations realize systemic change by providing resources, tools, guidance, and direct support to change leaders. In this project, NCWIT proposes to accelerate department-level culture change at all levels of postsecondary computing through several inter-connected activities: 1) Growth, diversification, and engagement of its Academic Alliance so more postsecondary computing programs have the knowledge, awareness, and motivation to increase participation of women of different backgrounds and educational levels in colleges and universities; 2) Further development and implementation of NCWIT’s unique, research-based systemic change (Tech Inclusion Journey) platform to enable more postsecondary undergraduate programs to efficiently self-assess and develop srategic solutions to increase representation of women in their programs; 3) creation and deployment of Learning Circles peer cohorts and a supporting community of practice model to guide academic change leaders in building inclusive cultures; 4) Extension of NCWIT’s freely available resource collection to include more actionable resources on inclusive culture construction, systemic change, and intersectionality; and integration of NCWIT’s talent pipeline programs and the resources of external BPC and other partner initiatives; and 5) Advancement of public awareness and support for increasing women's participation in computing through existing and new communication channels.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.

科罗拉多大学扩展了国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT）联盟。无论是从公平的角度，还是从国家对高素质科学劳动力和改进创新的需要的角度来看，在所有身份交叉点和职业道路的各个层面，妇女在计算机领域的系统性社会和结构性劣势都令人深感关切。虽然该国在过去二十年中取得了一些进展，但妇女在人数和影响力方面的代表性仍然不足。NCWIT力求确保妇女在计算方面有重要的影响，因为技术产品更好，人们得到更好的服务，计算研究与更多的人有关。妇女参与计算的程度低，其根源在于不公平的社会结构和日常社会互动，而不是妇女。NCWIT的变革方法在社会制度层面中断这些不平等的再现，改变政策，日常做法和决策，信仰和规范，以维持变革。在计算部门建立包容性文化将增加思想的多样性，并推进计算学科，这是所有其他STEM领域不可或缺的一个领域。NCWIT联合了整个计算生态系统的1500多个成员组织，以确保那些在性别认同，种族，民族，阶级，年龄，性取向和能力状态的交叉点上确定为女性的观点和贡献在计算的各个层面都有意义地代表。NCWIT指导其成员，包括高等教育机构，在生态系统的关键，在理解，实施和制度化的研究为基础的做法和战略，产生系统性的变化。NCWIT通过向变革领导者提供资源、工具、指导和直接支持，帮助组织实现系统性变革。在这个项目中，NCWIT建议通过几个相互关联的活动来加速中学后计算各级的部门级文化变革：1）学术联盟的增长，多样化和参与，使更多的中学后计算程序有知识，意识和动机，以增加不同背景和教育水平的妇女在学院和大学的参与; 2）进一步发展和实施NCWIT独特的、以研究为基础的系统变革（技术包容之旅）平台，使更多的中学后本科课程能够有效地自我评估和制定战略解决方案，以增加妇女在其课程中的代表性; 3）建立和部署学习圈同伴群体和支持实践社区模式，以指导学术变革领导者建立包容性文化; 4）扩大国家妇女信息技术中心免费提供的资源收集范围，以包括更多关于包容性文化建设、系统变革和交叉性的可操作资源;整合国家妇女信息技术中心的人才管道方案和外部BPC及其他合作伙伴倡议的资源;通过现有和新的沟通渠道，提高公众意识，支持增加妇女参与计算。该奖项反映了NSF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。