CUE-P: Establishing Servingness in Computing through Baskin Engineering Excellence Scholars Program

鉴于技术对美国创新和经济发展的重要性，全国有必要扩大和多样化计算人才库。少数族裔服务机构(MSI)通过奖学金、服务和领导力，在为代表不足的群体的学生培养包容性学习环境方面发挥了重要作用。在这个cue Path项目中，一个由八所加州社区学院组成的团队将与加州大学圣克鲁斯分校(UCSC)合作，检查和加强MSI的服务性方面。该团队将研究如何从招收不同种族的学生学习计算机，转向以更有效地提高毅力、毕业率和职业安置结果的方式为他们服务。该项目的研究活动将特别关注两年制和四年制院校的转学途径对学生毕业和职业成功的影响，并评估在转学连续体上采用服务活动和实践的情况。该项目是加州大学圣克鲁斯分校(UCSC)的计算程序与八所合作的加州社区学院(卡尼亚达学院、旧金山城市学院、圣马特奥城市学院、德安扎学院、佛特希尔学院、哈特内尔学院、教会学院和圣何塞城市学院)合作创建的。该项目有三个主要目标：1)调整、改进和实施服务性框架，以识别和消除计算领域转学学生的制度障碍；2)通过确定支持转学学生公平坚持和毕业的策略，改善加州大学圣迭戈分校的计算服务性；以及3)评估加州大学圣迭戈分校采用服务性框架、政策和实践在促进计算领域转校生毕业、研究生院和就业安置率公平方面的有效性。Lozano、Franco和Subbian(2018)以及Garcia、Núñez和Sansone(2019)所描述的拟议服务框架，将极大地促进越来越多的证据表明，政策、教学、学生支持系统和其他与文化相关的实践如何能够提高学生在计算方面的成功。项目活动将产生模范行动计划、行动理论，并为面临类似计算持久性和成功挑战的机构推荐适当、可复制和可扩展的干预措施。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。

Given the importance of technology for U.S. innovation and economic advancement, there is a national imperative to grow and diversify the computing talent pool. Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) play a large role in cultivating inclusive learning environments for students from underrepresented groups through scholarship, service, and leadership. In this CUE Pathways project, a team of eight California community colleges will collaborate with the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) to examine and enhance the servingness aspect of MSIs. The team will study how to move from enrolling racially diverse students in computing to serving them in ways that more effectively increase persistence, graduation, and career placement outcomes. The project’s research activities will focus specifically on the effects of transfer pathways across the two- and four-year institutions and assess the adoption of servingness activities and practices along the transfer continuum on students’ graduation and career success.This project is a collaboration created between computing programs at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and eight partnering California community colleges (Cañada College, City College of San Francisco, City College of San Mateo, De Anza College, Foothill College, Hartnell College, Mission College, and San Jose City College). The project has three primary aims: 1) adapt, refine, and implement a servingness framework to identify and remove institutional barriers for Transfer students in Computing, 2) improve servingness in Computing at UCSC by identifying strategies for adoption that support equitable persistence and graduation for Transfer students, and 3) assess the effectiveness of UCSC's adoption of a servingness framework, policies, and practices in advancing equity in graduation, graduate school, and career placement rates for transfer students in computing. The proposed servingness framework, as described by Lozano, Franco, and Subbian (2018), along with Garcia, Núñez, and Sansone (2019), will substantially contribute to a growing body of evidence showing how policy, instruction, student support systems, and other culturally relevant praxis can increase student success in computing. Project activities will yield model action plans, a theory of action, and recommended appropriate, replicable, and scalable interventions for institutions facing similar computing persistence and success challenges.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.