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，国家迫切需要发展和多样化计算机人才库。少数民族服务机构（MSI）通过奖学金、服务和领导，在为来自弱势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路径项目中，一个由8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，研究和提高msi的服务性。该团队将研究如何从招收不同种族的计算机学生转变为以更有效地提高持久性、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侧重于两年制和四年制大学转学途径的影响，并评估在转学连续体中采用服务活动和实践对学生毕业和职业成功的影响。这个项目是由加州大学圣克鲁斯分校（UCSC）的计算机专业和八所合作的加州社区学院（Cañada学院、旧金山城市学院、圣马特奥城市学院、德安萨学院、Foothill学院、Hartnell学院、Mission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、完善和实施服务框架，以识别和消除转校生在计算方面的制度障碍；2)通过确定支持转校生公平坚持和毕业的采用策略，提高UCSC的计算服务性；3)评估UCSC采用服务框架、政策和实践在促进毕业、研究生院公平方面的有效性。以及计算机专业转学生的就业率。Lozano、Franco和Subbian（2018）以及Garcia、Núñez和Sansone（2019）提出的服务框架将为越来越多的证据做出重大贡献，这些证据表明政策、教学、学生支持系统和其他与文化相关的实践如何提高学生在计算方面的成功。项目活动将产生行动计划模型、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的、可复制的和可伸缩的干预措施。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。

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.