The CSGrad4US Fellowship Program

计算研究协会（CRA）将管理计算机与信息科学与工程（CISE）研究生奖学金（CSGrad4US）计划，旨在增加在CISE领域从事研究和创新事业的国内研究生的数量和多样性。许多本科学位获得者在工业界和其他组织中都有很好的工作机会，这些人中只有一小部分考虑攻读与计算机相关的博士学位课程。CSGrad4US奖学金为可能在工业或其他部门工作的学士学位持有人提供机会，让他们回到学术界，在CISE领域攻读研究型博士学位。该项目通过为成功申请和坚持博士课程的人提供金钱激励和支持，有可能影响国内CISE博士学位的培养和生产。该计划强烈鼓励来自计算机领域代表性不足的群体的人申请。该评估将为从职场归来的个人提供深入了解进入和通过博士课程的途径的特点，包括可用于支持更多样化的国内学生群体的指导和专业发展模式。基于过去与CSGrad4US指导计划和计算创新研究员的经验，CRA将管理CSGrad4US奖学金的所有阶段，包括：推广和招聘潜在申请人；促进奖学金申请程序；确定审稿人并进行小组审查；根据项目目标选择申请人，为参与者提供从申请过程开始到整个博士项目的指导计划；为csgrad4美国高等教育机构颁发奖项；进行持续的评估，以评估结果和跟踪参与者，并传播调查结果。CSGrad4US包括每年提供多达70名被选中的个人指导准备，然后提供三年的奖学金支持研究生学习，最终在位于美国，其领土或属地或波多黎各联邦的认可的高等教育博士学位授予机构获得CISE学科的研究型博士学位。该项目以CRA教育委员会（CRA- e）和扩大参与委员会（CRA- wp）制定的CSGrad4US指导计划的经验教训为基础。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 Computing Research Association (CRA) will manage the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Graduate Fellowship (CSGrad4US) Program with the aim of increasing the number and diversity of domestic graduate students pursuing research and innovation careers in the CISE fields. Many undergraduate degree recipients have outstanding job opportunities in industry and at other organizations, and only a small fraction of these individuals considers pursuing a computing-related doctoral degree program. The CSGrad4US Fellowship provides an opportunity for bachelor’s degree holders who may be working in industry or other sectors to return to academia and pursue research-based doctoral degrees in a CISE field. This program has the potential to impact the domestic CISE PhD pipeline and production by providing the monetary incentives and the supports for people to successfully apply and persist in a doctoral program. The program strongly encourages people from groups that are underrepresented in computing to apply. The evaluation will provide insight into the characteristics of pathways into and through PhD programs for individuals returning from the workforce, including a model of mentoring and professional development that can be used to support a more diverse, domestic student population. Building upon past experience with the CSGrad4US Mentoring Program and Computing Innovation Fellows, CRA will administer all phases of the CSGrad4US Fellowship including: outreach and recruitment of potential applicants; facilitating the fellowship application process; identifying reviewers and conducting panel reviews; selecting applicants according to program goals, running a mentoring program for participants starting with the application process and going throughout the PhD program; making awards to CSGrad4US institutions of higher education; conducting ongoing evaluation to assess outcomes and track participants, and disseminating the findings. CSGrad4US includes providing up to 70 selected individuals each year mentored preparation, followed by three years of fellowship support for graduate study that leads to a research-based doctoral degree in a CISE discipline at an accredited doctoral degree-granting institution of higher education having a campus located in the United States, its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This project builds upon the lessons learned from the CSGrad4US Mentoring Program developed by CRA’s Committees on Education (CRA-E) and Widening Participation (CRA-WP).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.