PLN: Attracting and retaining African American females in the computing sciences

路易斯安那州泽维尔大学（Xavier University of Louisiana）正在利用一笔计划拨款开展一项研究项目，旨在更多地了解那些被计算机科学吸引并取得成功的非裔美国女学生。研究计划是描述这一群体中对计算机科学感兴趣的学生的特征，找到成功的激励因素，并对他们对该专业的看法进行分类。基于这项研究，本科课程可以被塑造成增加非裔美国女性进入计算机科学本科的数量，并鼓励那些在该领域学习的人继续读研究生。泽维尔大学正在与其他hbcu和大学建立合作伙伴关系，以便在未来的项目中合作，发展企业合作伙伴，发展研究生院合作伙伴（特别是那些在研究程序和妇女问题方面有经验的伙伴），建立咨询委员会，并获得角色定义和合作协议。

Xavier University of Louisiana is using a planning grant to develop a research project aimed at understanding more about African American female students who are drawn to and succeed in computer sciences. The research plan is to characterize students in this group who are interested in computing sciences, find the motivating factors of success, and classify the views they have of the profession. Based on this research, undergraduate programs could be shaped to increase the numbers of African American females entering undergraduate computing sciences and encourage those in the field of study to continue through graduate school.Xavier is developing partnerships with other HBCUs and universities to collaborate in the future project, develop corporate partners, develop graduate school partners (in particular those experience with research procedures and women's issues), establish an advisory board, and obtain definitions of roles and cooperative agreements.