BPC-DP: Rice Emerging Scholars Program for Computer Science

莱斯大学将开发、实施和评估计算机科学-赖斯新兴学者计划(CS-RESP)，以支持来自历史上被排除在外的社区的新生，这些社区缺乏获得经济和教育机会的机会，阻碍了他们为高等教育做准备，以实现成为计算机科学家的抱负。通过支持这些学生成为具有强烈归属感的计算机科学家，项目工作人员将扩大这些社区在计算机科学领域的代表性，并加强我们自己的社区。这样做将使莱斯大学和计算机界能够解决由于能见度有限而不总是被放大的更广泛的挑战和问题，并设计出更具创新性的解决方案。该计划还将增加不同计算机科学家的数量，并最终增加各级组织的榜样。这一扩大参与的计算示范项目旨在提高参与者的归属感、留存感和学术成就。该计划在学业、社会和经济方面为这些学生提供支持。该项目以助学金为基础的为期六周的强化暑期项目开始，并在学生的头两年提供学术、导航和社会支持。这个项目采取了反补习的方式，不是弥补差距，而是教给学生一些他们在CS学生第一年会遇到的最具挑战性的材料。该项目还提供“侵入性”建议，以前瞻性地解决这些学生面临的社会问题。该计划还包括教职员工公平意识培训，以改善课堂和大学氛围。CS教师导师将与这些学生合作，建立关系，并确保他们参与重要的地方、地区和国家组织和活动。该计划将通过将归属感、保留率和入门课程成绩等短期指标与当前未参加该计划的学生以及非CS特定RESP计划的历史参与者进行比较来进行评估。该计划旨在成为XX-新兴学者计划的典范，其他学科和/或机构可以效仿我们的范例和流程，建立自己的特定领域(例如化学、电气工程等)。支持计划。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。

Rice University will develop, implement, and evaluate the Computer Science - Rice Emerging Scholars Program (CS-RESP) to support incoming freshmen from historically excluded communities whose lack of access to economic and educational opportunities has obstructed their preparation for higher education to succeed in their aspirations of becoming computer scientists. By supporting these students to become computer scientists with a strong sense of belonging, the project staff will broaden representation of these communities in the field of computer science and strengthen our own community. Doing so will enable Rice University and the computing community to tackle a wider range of challenges and issues not always amplified due to their limited visibility and devise more innovative solutions. This program will also increase the number of diverse computer scientists and, eventually, role models at all levels of organizations. This Broadening Participation in Computing Demonstration Project aims to improve the sense of belonging, retention, and academic achievement of the participants. The program supports these students academically, socially, and financially. The program kicks-off with a stipend based six-week intensive summer program and provides academic, navigational, and social support during the students' first two years. This program takes an anti-remedial approach, where, instead of bridging gaps, students are taught some of the most challenging material they will encounter during their first year as CS students. The program also provides "intrusive" advising to prospectively address social issues these students face. The program further includes faculty and staff equity mindedness training to improve the classroom and university climate. CS faculty mentors will partner with these students to build relationships and to ensure their participation in critical local, regional, and national organizations and events. The program will be evaluated by comparing short-term metrics such as sense of belonging, retention and introductory course grades against current "comparison" students who did not participate in the program and against historical participants in the non-CS specific RESP program. This program aims to be a model for XX-Emerging Scholars programs by which other disciplines and / or institutions can follow our examples and processes for building their own domain specific (e.g. Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, etc.) support program.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.