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-莱斯新兴学者计划（CS-RESP），以支持来自历史上被排斥的社区的新生，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好准备，以成功实现他们成为计算机科学家的愿望。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社区能够应对更广泛的挑战和问题，这些挑战和问题由于其有限的可见性而不总是被放大，并设计出更具创新性的解决方案。该计划还将增加各种计算机科学家的数量，并最终成为各级组织的榜样。这项“扩阔计算机参与示范计划”旨在提高参与者的归属感、学习能力及学业成绩。该计划支持这些学生在学术上，社会上和经济上。该计划以为期六周的强化暑期课程为基础，并在学生的前两年提供学术，导航和社会支持。该计划采取反补救的方法，而不是弥合差距，学生被教导一些最具挑战性的材料，他们将在他们的第一年作为CS学生遇到。该计划还提供“侵入性”建议，以前瞻性地解决这些学生面临的社会问题。该计划还包括教师和工作人员的公平意识培训，以改善课堂和大学的气氛。CS教师导师将与这些学生合作，建立关系，并确保他们在关键的地方，区域和国家组织和活动的参与。该计划将通过比较短期指标，如归属感，保留和入门课程成绩与当前的“比较”学生谁没有参加该计划和对非CS特定RESP计划的历史参与者进行评估。该计划旨在成为XX新兴学者计划的典范，其他学科和/或机构可以按照我们的例子和流程建立自己的特定领域（例如化学，电气工程等）。该奖项反映了NSF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。

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.