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

科罗拉多大学扩展了国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT）联盟。无论是从平等的角度，还是从国家对高素质的科学劳动力和改进的创新的需求的角度来看，女性在计算机领域所面临的系统性的社会和结构上的劣势都令人深感担忧。虽然这个国家在过去的二十年里取得了一些进步，但无论是在数量上还是在影响力上，女性的代表性仍然不足。NCWIT力求确保妇女在计算机领域具有重要的影响力，因为技术产品更好，人们得到更好的服务，计算机研究与更多人相关。女性对计算机的低参与度源于不公平的社会结构和日常社会互动，而不是女性。NCWIT改变方法在社会系统层面中断这些不平等的再生产，改变政策，日常实践和决策，信仰和规范以维持变化。在计算机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领域不可或缺的领域。NCWIT在计算生态系统中联合了超过1500个成员组织，以确保在性别认同、种族、民族、阶级、年龄、性取向和能力状态的交叉点上，那些被认为是女性的人的观点和贡献在计算的各个层面得到有意义的代表。NCWIT指导其成员——包括高等教育机构，这是生态系统的关键——理解、实施和制度化基于研究的实践和战略，从而产生系统性的变化。NCWIT通过为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建议通过以下几个相互关联的活动来加速各层级高等计算机的院系文化变革：1)学术联盟的成长、多元化和参与，使更多的高等计算机专业有知识、意识和动力，以增加不同背景和教育水平的女性在高校的参与；2)进一步发展和实施NCWIT独特的、以研究为基础的系统性变革（科技包容之旅）平台，使更多的高等教育本科项目能够有效地自我评估和制定战略解决方案，以增加女性在其项目中的代表性；3)创建和部署学习圈同伴群体和支持性实践社区模型，以指导学术变革领导者建立包容性文化；4)扩大我校免费资源馆藏，增加包容性文化建设、系统性变革、交叉性等可操作性资源；整合NCWIT的人才管道项目以及外部BPC和其他合作伙伴计划的资源；5)通过现有和新的通讯渠道，提高公众意识，支持妇女更多地参与计算。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。

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.