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与信息技术中心(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来看，女性在计算机领域的系统性社会和结构性劣势，无论是在所有身份的交叉点上，还是在职业道路的各个层面上，都令人深感关切。尽管这个国家在过去20年里有了一些改善，但无论是在人数上还是在影响力上，女性的代表性仍然偏低。NCWIT寻求确保女性在计算机领域具有非同小可的影响，因为技术产品更好，人们得到更好的服务，计算机研究与更多的人相关。女性对计算机的低参与度根源于不公平的社会结构和日常社交，而不是女性。NCWIT的变革方法在社会制度层面上中断了这些不平等的再现，改变了政策、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，并促进计算学科，这是所有其他STEM领域不可或缺的领域。NCWIT联合了整个计算生态系统中的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、性取向和能力状况的交叉点上认同为女性的人的观点和贡献在所有计算级别上都得到了有意义的体现。NCWIT指导其成员--包括生态系统中的关键环节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建议通过几个相互关联的活动来加速部门层面的文化变革，包括：1)发展、多样化和参与其学术联盟，使更多的高等教育计算项目具有知识、意识和动机，增加不同背景和教育水平的女性在高校的参与；2)进一步开发和实施NCWIT独特的、基于研究的系统变化(技术包容之旅)平台，使更多的高等教育本科生项目能够有效地自我评估并开发战略解决方案，以增加女性在其项目中的代表性；3)创建和部署学习圈同行队列和支持实践社区模式，以指导学术变革领导者建设包容性文化；4)扩大NCWIT的免费资源收集，包括包容性文化建设、系统变革和交叉性方面的更多可操作资源；以及整合NCWIT的人才管道计划和外部BPC和其他合作伙伴倡议的资源；以及5)提高公众意识，并支持通过现有和新的交流渠道增加妇女参与计算。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。

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.